Repairs Grief

lenscape · 2010-01-27T18:22:49+0000

My Pentax camera has developed a fault again. Yes. Again. After this recent failure, I suddenly realised that every Pentax DSLR I've used (*istD, K10D, K20D) and the last film camera (MZ-5) all failed. The hot-shoe on the K20D isn't firing in M mode. I can't use X mode because it has never worked properly with any radio trigger I've used. I always get the curtain in the frame. I sent it off to Johnsons Photopia and the quote has just come back as £180. That's £180 parts and labour to replace a PCB. That's absolutely outrageous. This failure rate is unacceptable and that cost to replace a PCB is really taking the piss. When people say that Pentax kit is amateur, I always thought they were having a dig at the photographers and not the people making the cameras. I've been a Pentax user all my life since my first SLR - an ME-Super; followed by a string of Pentax cameras: Super-A, MZ-5, *istD, K10D, K-m, K20D and a load of compacts, but I've had it now. I'm seriously considering jumping ship. I bought a Canon S90 a few weeks ago and the low light performance is superb. Way better then my K20D. In many situations it's a better choice to use. I'm afraid Pentax just isn't cutting it any more.

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gartmore gartmore

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20 years
Glasgow,
Scotland

Posted 22/03/2010 - 15:01 Link

Still in bits!

I need to get someone with a degree in electronics to look at it - repairs grief indeed

Ken
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