Seems like you're hard on your equipment.
Hard to imagine other brands of cameras, similar vintage, would have held up
any better.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
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From: "Larry Colen" <l...@red4est.com>
Subject: K-5 is shipped off to CRIS
Jerry at CRIS, who I talked to on Thursday, was out sick on Friday,
finally talked to a technician who said that it sounded like my K-5 has a
bad power board. CRIS doesn't have one in stock, but Pentax does, so in
theory they should be able to get it back to me in about two weeks.
Mind you, I've got a bunch of folks coming over to play with cameras on
the 17th, and it would be really nice to have a working K-5, but that's
not looking too likely.
This prompted me to review my experience with Pentax gear:
My AF 540 has been in the shop about three times, with at least a broken
hot shoe latch. It also refuses to stay in manual mode, and has some other
problems that John F says aren't typical of his 540, so maybe mine is
broken, and it's not just a bad design.
My K100 had something in the viewfinder delaminate, making it a bit hard
to see through. Walt's willing to put up with it, so it's his problem.
The shutter button on my K-x has me nervous. I can't really describe
what's wrong, and it seems to mostly work. If it were under warranty I'd
send it in to have it looked at.
My K20 had a hard life. It was dropped twice, but when it came back from
repair after the first drop, there was something wrong with it, that they
never were able to repair, and ended up just sending me a new one after a
couple of months. It also never performed well in low light. Other people
have claimed to have much better luck in low light with their K20s than I
had with mine, so either I was more demanding, or there was something
wrong with it.
My gear does see a lot more use than most people's. I always have at
least one camera with me, and the shooting style that works for me
involves taking a lot of shots until I feel I've got the shot perfectly,
so my cameras see a lot more use, and to be honest abuse than most. But,
apart from a couple of stupid accidents with the K20, nothing egregious.
But, I am beginning to wonder if Pentax quality is really up to par? Or,
if it's a reality of the modern age that it isn't economically feasible to
spend the extra on quality for gear that'll be "obsolete" in a few years
anyways. Especially, since most people probably shoot hundreds, or
thousands, of frames a year, rather than thousands a month.
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Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (from dos4est)
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