On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 08:53:54AM -0500, Rick Womer wrote: > Larry, > > Wow, you do ~a lot~ of shooting!
I seem to average about 100 frames a day. Though lately it ahs been less. There have been a lot of periods when I'd shoot nearly every day. Also, when I'm shooting action photos at under 2EV, and can't use focus assist lights, I need to take a lot of photos to get any keepers. It also takes me a lot of shots to get an image that I'm happy with. Yes, I know. I've had this discussion a lot, but it's the process that seems to work for me. > > 85K isn't too bad considering that the MTBF was supposed to be 100K. The > specs on the K-3 have a MTBF for the shutter of 300K. Note that I wasn't complaiining about the short lifetime of the camera. LRC > > Rick > > On Dec 14, 2013, at 00:36 , Larry Colen wrote: > > > I can check later but I think it was about 85,000. When they replaced the > > main board the on board counter got reset. > > > > Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Larry, > >> > >> Just out of curiosity, how many exposures did your "old, worn-out" K-5 > >> have on it? > >> > >> Rick > >> > >> > >> > >> http://photo.net/photos/RickW > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> > >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > >> Cc: > >> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 7:43 PM > >> Subject: My story with pro camera repair, so far > >> > >> Last summer my K-5 died. I sent it to CRIS, they quoted me something > >> close to what a used K-5 in better shape than mine would cost. > >> I just ordered a new K-5 II, then discovered pro camera repair in San > >> Diego. > >> I had CRIS send the camera there, they quoted $200 to repair, then $150 > >> to > >> remove the IR filter. > >> > >> The camera worked great for a few weeks, then it died. I sent it back > >> to PCR > >> and eventually heard back that the main board had died, they would do > >> the labor > >> for free, but I'd have to pay for the new board. Considering the age of > >> the camera, > >> I doubt the repair killed the board. Months go by, they think it'll be > >> fixed, > >> but then it doesn't work, they try somethng else, it still doesn't > >> work. > >> > >> Finally, they think it'll be done this week. It turns out that they > >> think it'll > >> need a $20 flex board, on order. > >> > >> After discussing things, they are sending me a check for $350, the cost > >> of my > >> original repair, and I'm leaving the camera there. If they manage to > >> fix > >> it, they'll contact me and I'll have the opportunity to buy the camera > >> back > >> from them. > >> > >> Outcome: I'm not happy, but I could be a lot less happy. For prompt > >> response, you need to call them on the phone, they tend to be days > >> or a week behnd in checing their email. I think that what happened is > >> they > >> got caught by an old worn out camera with lots of things going wrong > >> with it. > >> A repair shops nightmare. > >> > >> Had I not sent it to them, I'd have dead K-5 that wasn't worth > >> repairing. > >> Instead, I got several weeks of experimenting with a UV sensitive DSLR > >> and they've got a K-5 that probably isn't worht repairing, but which > >> they'll > >> probably have thier tech work on in his spare time. > >> > >> The yelp reviews on them are mixed, either very low, or very high. > >> People seem to either love them or hate them. They are a lot less > >> expensive > >> than the competition. > > > > -- > > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
