On Apr 15, 2011, at 14:46, Darren Addy wrote: > Bizarre and may or may not be related... since the Pentax-A 70-210mm > was working flawlessly, I decided to go back to putting on the Takumar > macro with m42 converter. Somewhere in there before putting the body > down (with lens off) I heard a tiny bouncing sound on my desktop (like > when you've dropped that little ball bearing the engages the aperture > ring while having a lens apart?). Lifted up the body to look under it > and found this: > http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/bizarre.jpg > What the heck? Like a little plastic bead. No idea from whence it > came. All I know is that everything seems to be working fine again at > the moment. > > I hope that wasn't the Essence of Pentax falling out of my K-x. I > would have hated to lose that. Or perhaps this is telling me I never > needed it in the first place? >
Looks a lot like a bead of silica gel (the "do not eat" stuff!). If it pops/cracks when you put a drop of water on it, that's what it is. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
