On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > And do you think with all the mishandling a Nikon/Canon would not have had > issues?
Dont get me going on my Nikon D2H problems Dave > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zos Xavius" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Oh no, not again. > > > >> 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
