Maybe I got a good one as well - never any problems with it. Admittedly it's only had fairly light use (shutter count less than 10000 in 6 years).
Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > On 03 June 2018 at 02:18 jtainter <jtain...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > Bill wrote: > > "I'm not sure if they got everything fixed on the K5 during it's run, but in > addition to the AF issues, they had problems with spots of cement on the > sensor on early ones and buttons falling off. Apparently if you got a good > one, they were very good indeed. I wasn't so lucky." > > I guess I got lucky with my K-5. I did eventually part with in in favor of the > K-5II and IIs. I still use them when I travel. They (and the DA lenses) are > smaller and lighter than my K-1 and its lenses, and I am still very pleased > with the image quality. > > The K-5 was produced by Hoya, the II and IIs by Ricoh. The Hoya version was > notorious for cheapness. Ricoh, to their credit, fixed that. > > Joe > > > > -- > 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.
