On 8/6/2014 3:13 PM, Larry Colen 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.
Geez Larry, I beat the crap out of my cameras and I don't have the
problems you do. My K20D has a broken SD card door, a cracked
viewfinder, the focus point indicators have been knocked out of
alighment and yet it still takes photos. My *ist-D took a tumble, and
the green button got jammed in some intermediate position, so that
neither it's functionality nor the DOF preview now works and it still
takes pretty good pictures, (though it does run through batteries pretty
fast, even when turned off, though that may not be related since the
*ist-Ds has developed the same problem). What the hell do you do to
your poor cameras?
--
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve
immortality through not dying.
-- Woody Allen
--
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.
