Re: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-26 Thread Peter J. Alling
But you see it wasn't Pentax USA that I have a problem with, it was the store who sent it to a center that a wouldn't repair it, damaged the camera further and wouldn't stand behind their service or lack there of. I didn't ask for Pentax authorized repair and the center isn't owned by Pentax t

Re: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-26 Thread Otis Wright
graywolf wrote: Pentax USA has the policy that if they can not put the camera back to factory specs, and sometimes that means they are out of only one part, they will return it as unrepairable. That is a decision made by their lawyers for liability reasons. That does mean that while they will

Re: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-26 Thread graywolf
Pentax USA has the policy that if they can not put the camera back to factory specs, and sometimes that means they are out of only one part, they will return it as unrepairable. That is a decision made by their lawyers for liability reasons. That does mean that while they will no longer repair a

Re: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-25 Thread Peter J. Alling
That's not so bad. I had a local camera shop send a MX to a local authorized Pentax repair depot. It needed to have it's hot shoe re-attached. I even supplied all the parts. Other than the missing hot shoe the camera although nicely brassed worked flawlessly. It was returned unrepairable due

Re: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-25 Thread Peter J. Alling
That's not so bad. I had a local camera shop send an X to a local authorized Pentax repair depot. It needed to have it's hot shoe re-attached. I even supplied all the parts. Other than the missing hot shoe the camera although nicely brassed worked flawlessly. It was returned unrepairable due

Re: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-25 Thread Rob Studdert
On 25 Mar 2004 at 16:53, Cotty wrote: > On 25/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] discumbobulated: > > >>camera shop and had it promptly returned as a no fix due to > unavailability of > >>parts at a cost of AU$50. The simple fact is that it has a dodgy ratchet on > >>the > >> > >>Rob Studdert > > Yep. He h

Re: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-25 Thread Cotty
On 25/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] discumbobulated: >>camera shop and had it promptly returned as a no fix due to unavailability of >>parts at a cost of AU$50. The simple fact is that it has a dodgy ratchet >>on the >> >>Rob Studdert Yep. He had that dodgy ratchet when he visited us a a couple a year

Re: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-25 Thread mapson
camera shop and had it promptly returned as a no fix due to unavailability of parts at a cost of AU$50. The simple fact is that it has a dodgy ratchet on the Rob Studdert I think it is very unfair to charge for letting you know that the work cannot be done. Please do not tell me that the tech

Re: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-25 Thread Rob Studdert
On 25 Mar 2004 at 17:37, David Nelson wrote: > I was wondering whether any of the Aus > PDMLers can recommend a way to see some pentax gear. I think Melbourne > CRK is the base - do they have a range of pentax gear? Any shops around > that stock some? Is the world's driest inhabited continent t

RE: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-24 Thread Alan Chan
Tell you what David, save your trouble and fly to Japan this weekend. Regards, Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan From: David Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17

Australia and Pentax - frustration (whinge)

2004-03-24 Thread David Nelson
G'day, You may remember my problem with my *ist D, where the pop-up flash seemed to seize the camera's operations. After more of a fiddle I reckon that the problem probably indeed resides in the flash, or whatever mechanism charges and gives flash information to the main body. I never got th