I sent my K-1ii to Precision last Friday. Received the repaired camera back today, one week elapsed time including shipping. I don’t care for the $353 flat price, but I am impressed with their quick turnaround. [When they don’t need to wait for parts.] And whatever the specific repair, they do a complete CLA while they have the body.
In my case the repair was to the LCD. I know the “legs” are strong enough to hold the weight of the body, I have seen images online of people extending the LCD and holding the camera that way. What I found out the hard way is that the leg-to-body connection is not strong enough under stress. I.e., when my camera (with 24-70mm attached) started to slip off the car seat and I grabbed for it and somehow caught the edge of the retracted LCD and it jerked open from the weight of the falling camera and one leg popped loose from the body channel. It seemed that it should have just popped back in, but I didn’t see an obvious way to do that and was hesitant to apply a lot of pressure and possibly screw it up even more. The good news in the whole story is that my grab onto the camera via the LCD slowed the fall enough that there was virtually no impact of the body-plus-lens on the floor of the car. stan > On Jun 6, 2019, at 1:29 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > > mike wilson wrote on 6/5/19 10:24 PM: >>> ... >> I would now be concerned that there is a loose bit inside the body that >> could interfere with or damage the rest of the workings. > > I would be also, but it costs $353, plus shipping, to get it repaired whether > it's a mainboard or a cheap little piece of metal. There is also no way of > contacting them via email. > > I figure that the less that I have to do with precision camera the better my > life will be. > > Meanwhile, my 256G SD cards arrived today, so it should be a very rare > circumstance that I'll need to replace the memory cards > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ -- 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.
