The problem is the lock pin is stuck, which is the engineering hack that Pentax and Nikon both have used to solve the problem that the ISO hotshoe simply isn't capable of holding a flash safely. The solution is to abandon the archaic and poorly designed ISO flash shoe (which was never intended to hold flashes in the first place, it was designed to hold viewfinders back in 1921). Minolta got this right with the 7000i and has been pilloried for it ever since, but their shoe is far more reliable and mechanically superiori to the ISO shoe.
-Adam On 1/27/08, Mark Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attention Pentax Engineers: If you're reading this, you should be ASHAMED > for letting a product with this failure mode go out the door. ASHAMED. > Designing any kind of locking mechanism that can break in a "locked" > position is just plain bad engineering. > > --Mark > > Paul Stenquist pnstenquist at comcast.net > >Yes, it's true. I mounted the 540 flash on the K10D this afternoon in > >an effort to shoot some birdies, and now it won't come off. I tried a > >little bit of WD40 ( a light lubricant), lots of tugging and pulling. > >I'm guessing that a screw has come loose on the hot shoe and is > >locking it in place. Any ideas? I'm thinking I'm going to have to > >send camera and flash to Pentax. A pisser. > >Paul > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
