Hi all,

I have a K30 and it's just started suffering this problem. Thing is I've now moved to Australia and I bought my K30 in the UK years ago now so well out of warranty. I did however find a fix, albeit temporary, on another dpreview: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3742443. Check the last post on the first page (flat view) - user Anirut J

To summarise, stick it in hi burst mode, shoot at something for a while and it will get itself working again (ymmv). It's almost as if it needs a bit of a wake up. With mine, if I turn it off for 30 minutes it will need waking up again, but it's not too much of a problem, as long as you remember - and mine is usually moving again by the time the buffer is filled.

It's not a permanent fix but it'll do the job till it either dies completely, I can afford to send it off for repairs or I get my K3. I'm currently on about 10000 actuations so it's not been overly used but that might be the reason it's died - so go shoot more!

Cheers everyone

Bit of a stupid move if you ask me! Never know though, I could have got the deal of the year (if with a little bit of wear and tear).

I've seen too many videos of cameras being dropped down stairs/fallen off tripods and the like and still working. I'm doubting the screens will work (both cracked) but they're replaceable, especially the LCD one. If it doesn't, I'll just resell it. As long as it turns on, the dials and recording to card work I might keep it anyway for all the M/A primes I'm planning on getting! It'd be almost like having a 70s camera again

Hello everyone,

Just joined but have been lurking other Pentax forums for a while and have myself a new K-30 that I bought last week as a joint Christmas present to ourselves. Just getting into photography with the better half so we're currently sharing the camera and mixing it with an old Fuji bridge camera we've had for years. My folks used to use an ME Super back in the 80s and I've been promised her lenses when I'm next over in Australia so I had more than enough reasons to buy a Pentax! Plus, the Pentax forums always seemed more personable than those of other brands.

However, I've crazily gone and bought another "faulty,spares or repair" K7 which looks like it was dropped onto concrete today too. It's untested due to lack of batteries so we will see. Thought it might be worth a punt so here's to hoping I'll either have 2 cameras soon. I hope Pentax make their K7 internals strong.

Nice to meet you all.

R