Camera Died???
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27-29 Bolton Street
Brixham, Devon TQ5 9BZ
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if your South Devon there is Mifsuds :-
Mifsuds Photographic Ltd.
27-29 Bolton Street
Brixham, Devon TQ5 9BZ
JudithAnn, if your address has a postcode, you can get deliveries.
I wouldn't wait until tomorrow..... buy it over the phone and ask for delivery by Saturday direct to the store. Monday is a Bank Holiday. Not sure if holiday area shops are open, but deliveries might be a day later.
Mifsuds have a secondhand K-20 with 20,000 actuations for £199. Bit old and a risk.
Are you sure that the battery is charged? With the camera turned off... remove and re-insert the memory card to see if the light blinks.... just to see if there is any life anywhere.
Maybe Jessops or Mifsuds could have a look at the camera?
SRS are the best in the business and I'm sure that as Peter says if there's a postcode you could get a Royal Mail delivery alternatively you can have it delivered to a post office, but make enquiries with the post office your going to use first.
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Algi
174 Fore Street
Exeter
Devon
EX4 3AX
tel: 01392 279024
They're he nearest photo dealer to you.
Try cleaning the battery contacts and check the battery is charged. It wouldn't be the first time I've inserted a battery upside down which didn't help make it work either! It's easy to forget something basic and panic when in unfamiliar territory.
Unexpected holiday expenses eh !!
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Alternatively, what about Amazon.co.uk or Photospecialist.co.uk? They offer delivery options to various pickup points as well as delivery to your door (you would need to find out whether there is a pickup point near you, of course). Would be useful if you want to go out and won't be at home when postal service or courier calls with new camera. I've had a lens from Photospecialist delivered to a local shop and collected by me within 2 days of order.
Youmay be able to get Value Added Tax (VAT) refunded when you leave the UK with the camera provided you have the right receipts and VAT form from the retailer. Ask the retailer about it. See https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-shopping/taxfree-shopping. VAT is included in the purchase price you see on websites and it's 20% so worth getting it back if you can.
Steve
PS: Much sympathy for you. My wife's camera once failed a couple of days into a trip to Iceland. Not a good start to a holiday.
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Philip
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There's also Jessops in Exeter so maybe you can pick up a K-1 there if you prefer that, but they may have to get it delivered to the store so phone them to check on that.
Jessops: Exeter
Tel: 01392 436383
235 High Street,Exeter,EX4 3NZ,United Kingdom
https://www.jessops.com/cameras/digital-slr-cameras/pentax
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yesterday for month to photo shoot England.... I am now in Devon, where might I find a pentax dealer. I am now willing to buy a new K-1
As the sun set, spreading its golden lustre upon the hills of Devon England, I was transported back into the fairytale books of my youth. It was as though Peter rabbits landscape came alive. The knarly twisted roads with hedges for curbs, stone farm houses with beautiful shaped moss covered roofs scattered here and there. Sheep bedding down for the night on the rough road, bring us to a complete stop. I was pushing my camera to capture what it could in the fading light.... I popped my flash, saw a blue light cross my view screen. Resigned myself to the fact that twilight was gone and darkness reigned. After 34 straight hours of almost no sleep, I retired straight to room when we arrived at our 400 year old cottage. I plug in my camera battery, fell fast to sleep at 10:30 local time. I awoke at 3:30 am hungry. My battery full charge, I thought, the family is asleep, I take a few photos of this unbelievable dewelling. My camera would not turn on....I remembered that blue flash ascross my screen....something said..."This was a short out". I believe my camera had died!!! Here I am deep in the middle of know where....miles and miles from shopping metropolitan world. Surrounded by sheep with spring lamb, little wild ponies, moss covered trees on fairytale landscapes, in a cottage 3x older then the country I live in...... and my camera dies??? Now what is life trying to tell me...hummmmm! Oh well, lets see what I can do with an I pad camera.... until then....
I have found a K-1 Mark II at Jessops about an hour from this cottage retail price $1799. About $ 3, 135. For just the body at home it runs $2,500 ... so it will be $600 more here! However, I then have a great camera.