On 18/02/2013 10:29 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote:
Here's an odd thing that happened to me today...
<odd thing story snipped>
So, what do you make of that?
I think the K5 is a lemon, plain and simple. I'm of the opinion that
Hoya specced the camera way higher than the hardware could reliably
deliver. I believe they sourced all the electronic parts from the lowest
bidder with little regard for how variances would affect performance and
reliability, and they skipped doing any testing or quality control at
all, going straight from design to boxed units on the shelves with no
steps in between.
There are lots of good ones, but there are way too many bad ones out
there to believe Hoya wasn't wringing every Yen possible out of the
thing to make the camera division look at least somewhat profitable.
From what I've read, the K5II and K5IIs, which are Ricoh era cameras,
are closer to what the K5 should have been. Hopefully they've fixed the
lens release button.
bill
--
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.
