It's nice to hear that you received a good treatment by Precision.
Having had some less than pleasant customer service, and having seen
numerous accounts from other people, I understand Larry's reservations
against sending the camera to them.
I've spoken with several repair shops in Houston and Austin, and except
one, all, essentially refuse to work on Pentax cameras because it is
extremely hard (to impossible) to get parts from Ricoh/Pentax.
It is a hearsay, but the owner of one of the repair shops in Houston told
me that one of the (essentially two real) photography stores in Houston
stopped carrying Pentax gear because of the problems dealing with the
manufacturer.
As for your mishap,
I assume you know the difference between a dynamic force and a static one.
This video is a good demonstration of that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZCFo3Lcbx8
In any case, it sounds your saved your equipment from a more serious
damage (as well as the floor of your car! ;-) )
Cheers,
Igor
Stanley Halpin Fri, 07 Jun 2019 10:45:37 -0700 wrote:
I sent my K-1ii to Precision last Friday. Received the repaired camera
back today, one week elapsed time including shipping. I don’t care for the
$353 flat price, but I am impressed with their quick turnaround. [When
they don’t need to wait for parts.] And whatever the specific repair, they
do a complete CLA while they have the body.
In my case the repair was to the LCD. I know the “legs” are strong enough
to hold the weight of the body, I have seen images online of people
extending the LCD and holding the camera that way. What I found out the
hard way is that the leg-to-body connection is not strong enough under
stress. I.e., when my camera (with 24-70mm attached) started to slip off
the car seat and I grabbed for it and somehow caught the edge of the
retracted LCD and it jerked open from the weight of the falling camera and
one leg popped loose from the body channel. It seemed that it should have
just popped back in, but I didn’t see an obvious way to do that and was
hesitant to apply a lot of pressure and possibly screw it up even more.
The good news in the whole story is that my grab onto the camera via the
LCD slowed the fall enough that there was virtually no impact of the
body-plus-lens on the floor of the car.
stan
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