I killed my K100d!...advise please.

Ancly · 2010-06-22T14:39:56+0100

Hi, I updated the firmware on my K100d...until about halfway through when the batteries decided to loose contact...when I picked it up to check progress. I am an idiot...yes...''never interupt power whilst updating firmware''. Must have been a dirty contact or something, anyway, upshot was, I bought an *istDs for £130 with kit lens as I was going away the next day and needed a camera. I like the *istDs a lot, cheifly because the batteries seem to last three times as long as the K100d. Sent the K100d to Pentax Centre at Johnsons Photopia Ltd and they want £165 to fit a new main board and test. Questions are...[as ebay tells me I can buy another K100d body for that much or less] 1. Would I be better off spending a little more for the next model up 2. Which is the next logical model? 3. If I pay £7 to get the K100d back unrepaired, is there a second hand market for dead K100Ds 4. Would the repair be worth the £165 due to a 'new' [probably refurbed] board, latest firmware [one hopes] and six month guarantee [probably only on the board though..] 5. Should I just stick with the *istDs? My main reason for getting a second body is that as an instructor at the local ATC, the youngsters are always keen to take photos on my 'proper' camera, and I would have a spare to hand over whilst keeping one myself. Any thoughts? Thanks Andy

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Posted 02/07/2010 - 22:19 Link

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My brother was an insurance claims assessor for a well known insurer, believe me, he knew all the tricks and dodges that people will pull to try and make a claimn On the other hand he often commented on how he had the feeling a claim was dodgy but couldn't prove it, he never mentioned anything about internet trawling though

Well it seems I was wrong on this, had a chat with my brother the other day, he confinrmed that Insurance Companies did search the internet where fraudulent claims were suspected, especially looking on ebay for reported lost or stolen items, he also told me that his old company sent expensive electronic items away for checking, so for example if you stuffed up the firmware and then deliberately dropped the camera down the stairs you would have been sussed out

Make me glad I'm an honest sort of chap......no, I am, really

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