ps sorry for the lack for formatting. that was a bit longer than i realized. :)
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > I hear you. Want my list? My first K-7 was and is a mostly reliable > camera, but the front e-dial barely works now despite efforts to clean > it with contact cleaner. It will get better for a while and then > revert back to registering turns in the wrong direction. Bummer. The > shutter button also has issues and barely registers half presses. Not > entirely awful, but it keeps SR from engaging half the time. The > sensor also has two pieces of dust lodged behind the filter stack > somehow as well. Sometimes the shutter only opens halfway and the > camera starts acting all weird. Turning it off and on a few times > resets it. The camera has seen tons of use and a few drops, so I > really can't complain too much. So then I buy a K-5 when the K-5 II > was introduced. It was a fairly reliable camera at first. One day I > dropped it off a tripod with my still broken 12-24. It bent the > bayonet ring, which I swapped with my K-7. After that it seemed mostly > reliable for about 6 months, though the mount was still not right > which I didn't really know and just blamed my lenses for being bad. > One day it started taking pictures that were half green like the > sensor readout was failing. It was still under warranty so I sent it > in and asked CRIS to check out the mount for me as I had doubts that > it was in good shape. It came back with a new board and sensor, all > fixed under warranty. They claim to have tested the mount, so I > assumed they did and it was ok. Then one day in the cold the mirror > starts flopping. This problem just grew worse over time and is > triggered by temperatures under 60F. Stick it in the freezer and it > will flop. Then the camera gets lost somehow, so I replace it with a > K-5 IIs. The IIs has been rock solid though I have babied the hell out > of it. I somehow get my K-5 back a month later and try a DA17-70 on > it. Turns out it won't focus to infinity at all on the wide end. Its > also extremely soft on the right side. So now I have a K-5 with a bad > mirror flop issue and a bad mount. Probably not worth the cost to fix, > but I'm going to send it back in anyways since it was a good backup at > one time. Oh yeah, I bought another K-7 from a list member here and > fell on it a month later. Broke the mount and my precious A35-105. I > sort of fixed the screwholes in the mount and replaced it with a good > ring, but for some reason it won't focus at all, so clearly the AF > block or the mirror is out of whack. I need to test that out some > more. The camera is pretty much minty asides from not focusing > correctly. Bummer. Oh yeah. I bought two copies of the 16-45 (lost one > somehow, long story) and both ended up just being horribly floppy and > soft. The one copy was sort of good for a while, but then just got > soft itself. Especially in portrait. So much so that I can't use the > lens anymore. Sometimes I feel like I'm just throwing money away. I'm > sure you get that feeling too. > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sometimes I feel like the flower pot in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. >> >> My K-5 II, purchased about a year ago, is showing signs of a flakey power >> board. Several times in the past week, I've been taking pictures and it >> would just lock up and the only way to reset it would be to pull the >> battery. >> >> My first K-5 started with intermittent problems, then finally died. I sent >> it in to KRIS, and waited through the long delay while they repaired it, and >> it died again a while later. I tried having it repaired down in San Diego >> and it was converted to IR, but that repair did not last and they weren't >> able to re-repair it. >> >> I do have a K-x for backup, but the shutter button on it is having issues, >> and it would cost more to repair than it would to replace with a used one. >> >> My K100s, had the viewfinder delaminate or something. Both of my K-5s have >> now had power board issues. My K-x is having issues with the shutter button. >> My first K-20 was dropped so I can't blame all of it's troubles on >> manufacturing, and at this point I don't remember if I had to send my >> replacement K20 in. My AF-540 was an unmitigated piece of shit that I lost >> count of the number of times I had to send it in for repairs. >> >> There are a lot of things that I love about my Pentax gear, but reliability >> isn't one of them. It's almost like owning a FIAT with a viewfinder. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
