I don't know that I'm lucky. Perhaps. But it seems that those who have failures seem to experience them in droves, while others have no problems whatsoever. Don't know why, but there seem to be patterns here. Paul On Jan 23, 2010, at 11:00 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
> On 24/01/2010, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Amazing. How much do you shoot? I shot 30,000 frames with my K20D -- no >> problems. My first 16-50 was misaligned but was replaced by B&H within days. >> The second one has at least 10,000 frames on it, no problems. My DA* 50-135 >> and 60-250 each have three to five K frames on them with no problems. Oh, >> and my two *istDs and my K10D were trouble free. And I work all my gear hard. > > It just sounds like you've been very lucky Paul. I don't own SDM > lenses so can't comment on those but I do still have problems with my > *ist D (buttons not working properly, happened within warranty but had > no opportunity for send it in as I couldn't afford another $2100 for a > second body) and my K10D had a litany of problems associated with the > crooked mirror which Pentax refused to agree was a recurring problem > in these bodies. I am watching Pentax's response to the reported SDM > failures with great interest but no surprise. > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > 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. -- 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.

