Originally posted by reh321 I have now had my K-30 for 37 months, roughly 3100 on the shutter count. I took ten or so pictures last Saturday; today, after roughly five days rest I took a picture of our cat resting on the piano - first image was black, second {allegedly same settings} was OK. "Folklore" suggests that these cameras don't like time off. The five day rest mine had took one shot to recover from; the longer one yours had was more of an issue. I'll see whether mine needs less rest, or more "warmup"/"recovery" over time.
I had similar situation at the beginning of "disease", when first few shots were dark, later ones were normal (usually shooting a burst "cleared" the issue for a while). Unfortunately, it is only a step on the road to death of this mechanism - already ordered KP and till then using my aperture ring lenses.
Oh well... 18220 not too bad for my camera, my K200D has less, I think. Unfortunately, my K200D is in different country, and my K30 was perfectly working a week ago, otherwise I would have asked my mom to pass the K200D through my colleague who was coming. Another not fun part is that I have some shooting this weekend (luckily - only for me), and only a few autofocus aperture ring lenses, all of which overlaps in focal range (50-500, 70-300 and 90). I hope I won't need wide end often, as my eyes has difficulties with manual focus...
Did hope to wait through till Photokina, though.