Hi all!
Today I might have killed my beloved K-5.
Last week I went to photograph Dakar that passed over my country (among Perú and Argentina), this may have my last pictures with my Pentax so if you like,
here's the link.
So my Pentax K-5 + 18-55 WR worked wonderfully with all the dust that came to me at the photoshoot, I spent a wonderful day and of course got very dirty. But today I had this brilliant idea (now I know it was a wrong idea, but when you know you have an excellent sealed camera you'd think nothing will happen) of pour some good amount of water in my garden with the water hose. The pressure was ok, I mean it wasn't in the type of a shower, but in any case was a high pressure stream, not at all, medium pressure.
So first minutes after it worked very well, but then the shutter button stopped working, it seemed an amount of water passed through the buttons, then the screen stopped working and finally it died. Took apart the lens and got a lot of drops inside the body (lens seal didn't work either?), put some hair dryer to evaporate rebel drops, then some silica gel.
Right now I have it without the lens and all open with 10 bags of silica and some rice all in a bag closed, hoping that tommorow or past it will revive, it would be a great loss
I missed it already.
Do you think my copy was flawed? Was I an stupid for doing that?
BTW, I bought it used and I have it for almost a year after bought, yeah, is out of warranty, not to mention Pentax is not present in Chile. Ohh well.