Mike, it`s what the dishwasher is for! George you are confused, YORKSHIRE is God`s own country. Scotland is a bit left over from when Slarty Barkfast (excuse the spelling please Douglas Adams-deceased)did the crinkly bits around Norway.

Cedric

Chap in the local pub offered me 8 legs of venison for £50.00. Just want to know if that`s too deer.

Cedric

I must admit to not having them on any of my cameras yet. As usual I will probably leave fitting them until it`s too late. However I must point out that although metal on plastic is not good plastic on plastic is an absolute disaster. I totally destroyed a mobile phone screen with it chaffing on a plastic cup.

Cedric

Hopefully a good result, good that Samsung responded too. That is very positive and at least shows a concern for customer satisfaction.

Cedric

WOW!!!!!!! a hard day at work, look at the PU site. Humungous laughter fit. Now how about "customise" your camera pictures, sacrifice your time with creativity and zeal. Let`s see some actual pictures of your work. I feel like attacking my Painasonic just to spruce it up. Particular thanks to Stefan, what a hoot!

Cedric

I agree with George a lot of fuss about such a small deal. I doubt there`s a comparable service to SRS. If you find it let us know.

Cedric

Perhaps a log could be kept on this site to record equipment failures/faults. Could be useful to future manufacturing or just a place of interest for prospective owners. George, I see where you are coming from and it is hoped that Sony have learnt. I have this thought in my mind though of a few million laptop batteries from said same manufacturer. Going off at a bit of a tangent from the original thread now though.

Cedric

Hi Luke

Go out and enjoy using your Pentax kit. It`s cracking stuff, as good a value as any other make. It`s a fickle world we live in with companies coming and going, who knows what the future will bring. Your kit will bring you hours of pleasure and moments of dissapointment. Go and experiment and once you have the feel of handling your K20D come off of the green mode and then you will see what can happen. Welcome, enjoy the world through a viewfinder.

Cedric

I am only guessing but the video camera sensor issue happened after a few years of ownership, four in my case. As I said I nearly binned the thing. So possibly a lot of people like myself thought that as the camera was well out of warranty that it was not worth repair. I was idly looking at the web when i came across an American site with a list of faulty Sony empowered cameras and i thought it was worth contacting Sony.

If enough people globally have issues with part of a product and with the Sony issue it was to do with the compound that the sensor was embedded in then manufacturers ought to have an indefinate period of warranty for it. That is if K20D owners are having issues with a samsung sensor then Samsung should warrant free of charge repair outside the manufacturers warranty period. In the UK a six year period against goods being faulty is the case. Albeit it has to be on the owner to prove that there was an inherant fault from new. Like the Sony sensor issue it did not become apparent always until after several years.

What bugged me about is was the fact that I hardley ever used the camera and the first time I put it on a tripod to use on holiday the view failed as i watched the scene in the viewfinder.

Cedrid

Hi Stefan, I have no knowledge of who uses which make of sensor. I was sharing some limited knowledge about a global issue with Sony sensors. Really glad to know that the K20 is from the Samsung company. I guess it`s a question of once bitten twice shy and I would never knowingly buy a product with a Sony sensor. Having said that though the video camera was returned repaired within a week which included postage times. I guess camera manufacturers are like the car manufacturers, they get the public to finish the quality control in real life situations and if enough complain they may do something about it.

Cedric