Replacing the bumpers is difficult enough that a lot of very good camera techs won't attempt it. Probably not a good DIY project. But that being said, the LX is a marvelous camera. I still have mine. Time to take it out for a spin again.
Paul On Mar 7, 2013, at 7:18 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 March 2013 02:14, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm hopeful that I can put in a mirror bumper pad and seals in the >> film back (myself) and be good to go, but that remains to be seen. I >> was hoping that those of you with an LX (or experience with them) >> might tell me what sort of issues you had with them (if any) and your >> impression of where the LX stands in the Pentax film body family. > > Personally I wouldn't try, it may make things worse when you send it > of a CLA. I've still got two bodies, they are great cameras but yes > they do have their faults though they are getting a bit old now. Many > moons ago I wrote a page about LX problems (most of which I > experienced as I had a heap of these bodies) which in the film days > used to get a lot of hits, it can be found here: > > http://users.tpg.com.au/distudio/pentax_lx_problems/ > > Cheers, > > -- > 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.
