RE: PLASTIC aperture pin BROKE (SFXn) ;( METAL ONE?

2001-12-09 Thread Emilio Puga
What about K & M lenses? -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] En nombre de Alan Chan Enviado el: lunes, 10 de diciembre de 2001 1:07 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: PLASTIC aperture pin BROKE (SFXn) ;( METAL ONE? >I was just hoping that a more r

RE: PLASTIC aperture pin BROKE (SFXn) ;( METAL ONE?

2001-12-09 Thread Emilio Puga
nombre de Alan Chan Enviado el: lunes, 10 de diciembre de 2001 0:46 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: PLASTIC aperture pin BROKE (SFXn) ;( METAL ONE? Perhaps you can order the part (just a plastic ring with a tiny piece of metal on it) yourself from Pentax and then designed what to do next. It&#

Re: PLASTIC aperture pin BROKE (SFXn) ;( METAL ONE?

2001-12-09 Thread Alan Chan
>I was just hoping that a more reliable body part could be inserted >there instead of the plastic one. This one failed me during a paid >assigment where I fortunately used a spotmeter as my exposure meter >(not metering TTL at all) so no ruined pictures, fortunately. Perhaps you can consider the

Re: PLASTIC aperture pin BROKE (SFXn) ;( METAL ONE?

2001-12-09 Thread Alan Chan
Perhaps you can order the part (just a plastic ring with a tiny piece of metal on it) yourself from Pentax and then designed what to do next. It's a few buck only as I remember. regards, Alan Chan >I am sure it will be a quick repair (IF I can do it myself - I am >pretty sure my local authoris

Re: PLASTIC aperture pin BROKE (SFXn) ;( METAL ONE?

2001-12-09 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
AC> I believe all Pentax 35mm bodies since the P series use plastic. This part AC> is quite easy to replace. AC> regards, AC> Alan Chan Thanks, Alan. I am sure it will be a quick repair (IF I can do it myself - I am pretty sure my local authorised Pentax repair would overcharge me - I have had

Re: PLASTIC aperture pin BROKE (SFXn) ;( METAL ONE?

2001-12-08 Thread Alan Chan
>the aperture indexing pin (the one which tells the body which >aperture is set on the lens) on my SFXn is (was) made of plastic. >One day (yesterday), it decided it breaks. It broke! Stupid damn >engineer at Pentax who decided to save 0.005$ by making this part >plastic not me