The hardest part is taking the camera to bits. Then the problem is a permanent magnet that slides between the two copper coils shown. It sticks and the solution is to sand a bit off, but no one has indicated which bit????

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The article does seem to confirm that the magnet is the problem.

I wonder why the repair is so expensive???? No parts needed.

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Nothing wrong with the penta-club.ru forum One of the TOP Pentax sites.

They come up with loads of fixes and first rumours of new releases.

They discovered the original Degug Hack for the K-10

http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/6-pentax-dslr-discussion/27040-k10d-firmware-...

They are very polite as well who on here would begin a post..

"First of all, carefully read the posts of distinguished predecessors,"

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The website is run independent of the stores and has it's own stock. You can actually order stuff from a store and it is delivered by the store not the website.

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I forgot to mention that Lancia refusing to compensate owners for having to scrap rusty cars finished up killing off the company in the UK and most of Europe. They tried to make a comeback years later but British car owners have very good memories and rightly stayed clear.

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Cars contain electronics and computers So they should only last 5 years

The only car I've had that I had to scrap after 4.5 years was a Lancia Beta Spyder

Nothing wrong with the old Pentax film cameras such as the Z-1p and MZ-S

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I was horrified to hear that Nikon only produced spare parts for their film cameras for 10 years after the end of production (film era).

So 10 years is the expected life of a film camera according to Nikon. I would expect the same from a Pentax digital. Earlier failure with moderate use is unacceptable.

Really talented photographers just see their cameras as a tool and aren't too bothered about having the latest gimmicks

This lady just uses a K-30 and puts most other people with all the latest stuff to shame......

https://www.flickr.com/photos/aravis121/with/22995185502/

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If it's faulty manufacturing they should repair it FREE and without a time limit. Sony repaired a lot of cameras sold by other makes covering a 5 year period, but the 5 year limit was set by Sony themselves. I had a Minolta F300 which was effected, but it still worked so I never sent it back.

See......

http://www.adorama.com/alc/0009843/blogarticle/Weekend-Wrap-Sensor-recall-deadli...

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Stick with it Stan Have you seen this page...

http://redredphoto.com/blog/equipment/pentax-k-1-review-pixel-shift/

Photographing an EMPTY beer bottle label should show how good it is.

I never use FULL bottles because it might get broke and the valuable contents get lost

I haven't got a camera that does PS yet. The Pentax software is supposed to be the best at handling PS.

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These are some tests done on various cards. Only the K-3 ii was tested......

http://www.cameramemoryspeed.com/pentax-k-3-ii/fastest-sd-card-comparison-test/

So 37MB/s (SLOW!!!) should be possible meaning a RAW of 28MB would take 0.75 secs and 6 shots fully written to the card should take 4.5secs.

Slower cards such as the Ultra 40MB/s cards can take over twice as long.

Note that up to filling the buffer the speed of the card does not matter it's after that that things slow down.

On RAW files the K-5 should be slightly faster than the K-3 for a given number of shots.

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Have you got a lot of in camera processing turned on?

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