Originally posted by elho_cid In the Czech and Slovak online pentaxian club (pentaxfriends.eu) I'm so far the only one who has this problem. My K-5 is from the first batch coming to Prague. The ill fate of impatient early adopters. No one of those who bought after me reports such problem.
I tend to conclude that Pentax recognized and fixed the problem quickly, but they will never admit it's existence publicly and treat the repairs or replacements one by one. As usually.
make that two. i bought it in CR myself, but i don't speak the language, so can't make use of that site. mine is in for being checked by the service, and, allegedly, replaced by a new one if it's indeed not a surface cleanable issue. afoto was very gracious about it (brick and mortar shop), they called pentax (distributor?) immediately when i explained the issue, and they confirmed that once the service center approves, replacement will be the solution).
you do bring my hopes up that i have a chance of getting a clean second one, though, so thanks