Re: Should I send my K-5 in for service?

2013-07-24 Thread John Sessoms
I'm sure it would. The guy who comes to GFM is not exclusively Pentax. He's mostly CaNikon. I don't have any idea where I'd find a guy who only cleans Pentax sensors. On 7/24/2013 2:23 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: John, can it be that any authorized camera service willing give your sensor a proper

Re: Should I send my K-5 in for service?

2013-07-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
CRIS won't perform ny repairs without your authorization. They're quite reasonable and willing to negotiate. Paul On Jul 24, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > John, can it be that any authorized camera service willing give your > sensor a proper cleaning would do? It seems to me that an

Re: Should I send my K-5 in for service?

2013-07-23 Thread Boris Liberman
John, can it be that any authorized camera service willing give your sensor a proper cleaning would do? It seems to me that an experienced camera technician (not necessarily exclusive to Pentax brand) could help you and obviously, to clean a sensor won't cost you an arm and a leg. On Tue, Jul 23,

Re: Should I send my K-5 in for service?

2013-07-23 Thread Bulent Celasun
My first Pentax (K100D) had dust under the filter. Without realising this; I had damaged the surface while trying to clean it. Pentax service (Germany) labelled the problem as "user error" even though the dust was there from the beginning... B. -

Re: Should I send my K-5 in for service?

2013-07-23 Thread Zos Xavius
IMO if wet cleaning isn't removing it after multiple passes its prob under the filter. Check it out with a magnifying glass. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:05 PM, John wrote: > It doesn't look like a damaged sensor to me (compared to what the > damaged spot on my K20D looks like in my images). It migh

Re: Should I send my K-5 in for service?

2013-07-23 Thread John
It doesn't look like a damaged sensor to me (compared to what the damaged spot on my K20D looks like in my images). It might be a dust particle trapped under the anti-aliasing filter (the k5 still had the anti-aliasing filter?), or it might just be a particularly stubborn piece of dirt. Therefor

Re: Should I send my K-5 in for service?

2013-07-23 Thread Zos Xavius
If its under the filter all they can do is replace the sensor. My older K-7 has two spots under the filter. I opted to just replace the camera vs sending it in. Replacing the sensor is about $400 FWIW. That spot is small and lower in the frame. I wouldn't worry about it too much. You probably won't

Should I send my K-5 in for service?

2013-07-23 Thread John Celio
If you take a look at the four pictures in the following gallery, you will see two little blobs on the right side that become clearer as the aperture is stopped down: http://imgur.com/a/IG40x (to see an image at full resolution, hover your mouse over the image, click the gear icon that appears and