These sound like arguments you're rehearsing for use on your wife in an attempt
to convince her to release K-7 funds to you. ;)
I know the tactic well!
Jack
--- On Sat, 4/10/10, Tom C <caka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Tom C <caka...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Pentax K20D annoyances (a continuing series).
> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net>
> Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:34 PM
> "It's exposure system often gives me
> files that take a lot of
> massaging to get good results from."
>
> If the K7 hadn't fixed this issue I'd have switched
> brands. I am
> loathe to pick up the K20D and may be have shot with it
> once since
> getting the K7.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:47 PM, P. J. Alling
> <webstertwenty...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Ok, I'll preface that by saying I actually like the
> K20D a lot. True it's
> > quite a bit bigger than any other Pentax camera I own,
> Film or digital. It
> > doesn't have an aperature simulator, (yea, that still
> torques me off a bit,
> > so sue me), It's exposure system often gives me files
> that take a lot of
> > massaging to get good results from. However over all
> it's a using it is a
> > very positive experience.
> >
> > Just a couple of days ago I had an experience that
> just takes the cake. I
> > was changing SD cards when I fumble fingered the
> camera and dropped it.
> >
> > The good news was I had the strap over one shoulder...
> Which was also the
> > bad news.
> >
> > The strap managed to impart a radial motion to the
> camera, and in a freak
> > circumstance that I don't think that I could
> accomplish if I tried the SD
> > card door latch, (the part of the latch that clicks
> into the camera body,
> > caught my belt loop... AND SHEARED OFF!
> >
> > Apparently that little plastic extrusion is more
> fragile than you'd expect.
> >
> > Also the strap wasn't as securely on my shoulder as I
> would have hoped and
> > after being slowed the entire camera hit the wooden
> floor I was standing on,
> > (imparting a slight bend to the left hand strap lug.
> >
> >
> > Now I ask you. What happens if the SD Door latch
> doesn't engage? Yes
> > that's right the camera won't operate. The micro
> switch that tells the
> > camera the door is closed is inside the latch,
> /rendering/ /the/ /entire/
> > /camera/ USELESS!
> >
> >
> > Ok, I'm calm again.
> >
> >
> > So we're back to the good news bad news again.
> >
> > Good news. I was able to recover the plastic doohicky
> that used to be part
> > of the SD door latch.
> >
> > Bad news. No glue that I have available to me will
> hold that piece of
> > plastic in the right place, (I knew it wouldn't work
> but I just had to try.
> > Well didn't I?)
> >
> > Good news, my field expedient, (after much language
> not appropriate to a
> > family list), to simply the the plastic doohicky to
> sit in the latch with
> > the door closed, (gaffers tape is wonderful stuff),
> seems to work, it even
> > stays put, if I remember to not use the open control
> allowing the camera to
> > take photos.
> >
> > The bad news is know I'm just going to loose it
> changing cards in the field
> > eventually.
> >
> > So it's off to Pentax repair...
> >
> > eventually.
> >
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