IMHO the plain ME is very reliable. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Pål Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Päivä: 03. elokuuta 2002 13:46 Aihe: Re: Subject: LX repair update >Alan wrote: > > >> But that doesn't explan why some bodies have received much more complains >> than others. > >It certainly does. The Pentax ME bodies that "receive more complaints than others" >are put out of circulation into a closed or into the garbage. Thats why you don't >hear much about them. > > >>My sister's lecturer (engineer) once said, "No matter how reliable >> certain products are in general, if yours was a lemon, you would never have >> the same faith on that brand anymore." This is especially true when you >> bought their top of the line products, just turned out to be a nightmare to >> fix. It's not just money, but endless frustration. > > >I've yet to hear about a single LX body that qualifies as a lemon. No reports of >constantly breaking NEW LX bodies has surfaced. THAT would qualify as a lemon. The >LX that are reported as lemons are 15-20 years old, most of them bought used with an >unknown history. When a camera needs service after 15-20 years of use it certainly >have done its intended job. If camera need repeated service then its the service >people that doesn't do a good enough job. > > >Pål - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
