I did a search and this seems to be my problem. I found this site: www.pentaxcamerarepair.com and they offer $100 repair for the aperture motor. Anyone have experience with this? Looks to be an inexpensive fix for the K50 while I come up funds for whatever is next in line.
Thanks!! On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 4:20 PM Ed Keeney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Seems as if I might have an aperture motor failing on my 4 year old > K50. All images are coming out black (even ones in bright light). > I've tried multiple lenses, reset the camera settings back to the > defaults. Nothing works. > > Has anyone had this before? Any thoughts? Is a 4-year old K50 worth > getting repaired? Who would repair this? > > Here is an example of a picture with a bright grey sky... > https://www.dropbox.com/s/3zfaageo268llzm/IMGP6087a.jpg?dl=0 > > Wasn't planning on needing a new camera this year. Not happy. > -- > Thanks! > Ed > http://www.flickr.com/photos/edkeeney > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ridgewood_photog > Instagram: @ridgewood.photog -- Thanks! Ed http://www.flickr.com/photos/edkeeney https://www.flickr.com/photos/ridgewood_photog Instagram: @ridgewood.photog -- 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.
