On 4/23/2012 2:09 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Apr 23, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
Strange. I've dropped K-x once and completely destroyed my beloved A50/1.7
lens, and my cat has knocked it off the top of a dresser about 4 feet high
once, directly onto the mounted M 50/2 and the camera has come out better than
the lenses both times.
I suspect that it isn't gross abuse that is doing the cameras in, but rather
that they get a lot of fairly rough use. A lot of small bumps and taps rather
than a few big ones like being dropped.
Having dropped my K20 a couple of times, I can vouch that it is by no means
impervious to asphalt.
I suspect that what he really needs are the sturdier prosumer (K-5) cameras,
unfortunately, the school has an entry level (K-x) budget.
In hindsight, there's no way in hell I'd have trusted my K-x to myself
at that age -- or any other camera I've ever owned, come to think of it.
Or a bag of marbles for that matter.
-- Walt
I guess I can feel a little lucky now that I have another A50/1.7 on the way.
-- Walt
On 4/23/2012 1:54 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I had a chance to visit with my friend Tom this weekend. I mentioned him
recently, he is using several K-xs in the high school photo classes that he
teaches.
He mentioned that the reliability of the kit lenses is horrible. They break
very easily. I didn't find the exact failure mode, other than that they are
flimsy. He did say that once he gets the kids to use primes, (IIRC some manual
focus era 50mm), the kids quickly seem to much prefer the old primes to the
zoom lenses. It warms my heart that there does seem to be hope for the new
generation.
He also said that he's had problems with at least two LCDs simply stop working.
The cameras still take pictures, you just can't see anything on the LCD.
They've been off to Pentax and back for repair.
I have no idea how other brands fare as student cameras, but consistent multiple
failures is a serious issue. Is there anyone at Pentax I could point him to? At the
very least, they might find his class a good source of "torture testing", as
the cameras probably get a lot more usage than the vast majority of entry level cameras.
His problems are kind of a shame, because I think that a big part of the reason that the
K1000 was such an iconic student camera was its robustness.
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