> John, may I ask how you managed to damage it? The one on my *ist D > seems pretty damned robust, it stood up to three years of abuse, I > never protected it and I did a lot of bush trekking with it bouncing > off my belt buckle and tree branches etc.
I broke it thusly: The camera was sitting on my couch. If you were facing my couch, the camera was pointing to the leftish side. I tossed my TV remote at the right side of the couch. It bounced, my heart skipped a beat, and the corner of the remote went straight into the screen. This was the result: http://www.neovenator.com/special/pentaxscreen.jpg The LCD screen still worked fine, but I didn't want to risk further damage, so I sent it in. I thought they'd just replace the plastic cover, but they ended up replacing the whole LCD assembly. Cost more than I was expecting. :( The worst part is, there are some specks of dust UNDER the plastic LCD cover from their work. Pretty lame excuse for customer service, but I didn't want to be without my camera for three weeks again for them to just clean it out. John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
