Hi, > BTW, that's another question - any members had their LX fail them > in any way during shooting? E.g. in India, or even plain studio at > home :) ?
I bought my 1st LX after I'd been using 2 MXs and one of them repeatedly failed on me in Ethiopia. When I got back to the UK I traded it in for an LX. About 18 months later I was back in Africa with an LX, MX and Super A. The Super A and the LX both repeatedly failed on me in Ethiopia, Zanzibar and South Africa, and so did my A* 135/1.8 lens. They'd all been fine in the UK, so I guess it was the change of environment that triggered the problems at that particular time. Only my original bought-from-new MX and the other lenses kept on going. The MX had already been through many, many trips and changes of environment since I first bought it, so I think it was experienced at that sort of thing. When I got back I joined this forum and learned about the sticky mirror problem, which is what the LX problem was, so I had it fixed and the camera worked perfectly from then on. I got rid of the Super A and eventually bought 2 more LXs. One of them had the sticky mirror problem from the word 'go', which I didn't mind because I knew about it. The other was fine and never gave me any trouble iirc. I never got to take any of them back to Africa, but they did get some rough treatment, including winter temperatures in Moscow. It's almost impossible to predict how any used camera is going to react to a long-haul flight and dramatic change of environment. The best you can do is have plenty of cover and hope that at least one set doesn't fail. From the spec you've given you might prefer to buy a new Nikon FM3A, which has many of the great LX features (surpasses it in some ways), but then you'd have to get a whole bunch of their lenses too. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
