K7 problem

Having had my K7 for a couple of weeks I had set aside this weekend to get used to using it. Charged the battery, put to strap on, set time & date, formatted a disk all with no problem at all. Trouble began when I tried to set the Diopter on the view finder no way was it going to come into sharp focus. Never has a problem with K20 or ist so checked with husband who had same problem so that ruled out operator error so back it goes to SRS.

Glad that is where it came from as I have no doubt it will be replaced but not a good start.

Am I alone with this problem or has anyone else had or heard of this on any other body.

Sounds a bit like the problem I was having here.

R

Don't think so, I took one shot by pointing it and waiting for it to AF, realised the shutter at the in focus sound and the resulting shot although not prize winning was in focus. My problem was that no matter how I adjusted the view finder diopter it would not pull in sharp enough for me to read the settings. I assume it is just a view finder problem as the camera seems able to take a shot without my input, just that I would like to be involved.

Sounds like misaligned focusing screen. Be extermely careful if you want to fix it yourself (and resist temptetion to clean it) because they scrach *very* easily.

When you look through your viewfinder you first look through a serrie of lenses and then through the prism, I believe one of those lenses is misaligned the focus screen as said here above shouldn't matter too much but you can always look if it's inserted correctly.

I wouild simply go back to SRS and let see what they can do before you wreck something.