[selar]

Good to hear CR Kennedy did the right thing by you.

[Ben78]

Mine has started doing it. First I get a stained body, the second one flops its mirror, what a joke. And still I have to pay $40 in postage/insurance to return the thing...

Might have to have a chat with Fait Trading and see if I can get my $1600 back then go back to my reliable DS... or not...(damn, why does the K-5 have to be so good at everything else it does.....)

[TomE]

WOW, with all the potential issues with the K5, it looks to me to be extremely foolish to purchase one without the extended warranty!

Or, why should a camera this expensive have all these (potential) problems, which is convincing me to simply not get one.

Tom

[Jim Radcliffe]

Mine has started doing it. First I get a stained body, the second one flops its mirror, what a joke. And still I have to pay $40 in postage/insurance to return the thing...

Might have to have a chat with Fait Trading and see if I can get my $1600 back then go back to my reliable DS... or not...(damn, why does the K-5 have to be so good at everything else it does.....)

I think Pentax should put out a notice about this issue.. come clean, admit the problem exists and specify what steps are taken to repair the issue.

If a certain run of K5s have this issue then let us know the serial numbers.

The repair on my K5 is holding up after a month now. Hope it will not be a recurring problem.

Send it in, get it repaired... it will not get better with time, it gets worse.

[Ben78]

Worse thing is today I have taken a couple of hundred photos and not once did it flop. I recharged my battery last night to see if it made it worse. So frustrating, I don't live in a capital city so have to post it and be without it for possibly weeks.... For maybe a 'can't replicate the issue' return...