Originally posted by aaacb For construction, it's a magnesium body and it is well made, it feels "dense" being so compact. I've also had mine since it was launched. Used it daily on commutes for the first year, now a few times a week. It's a robust camera, certainly the best built compact I've used. I had the rotating dial on the back fixed because it was skipping after 1.5 years. I believe it was unrelated to the wobbly dial thing that affected early cameras (mine is one of them though). Then again, mode dials sometimes fail on Pentax DSLRs, as it failed on my k3ii after just 13 months of ownership.
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Thank you!
I had my first GRIII rear dial fail too, right inside of the second year of warranty that I had (one year manufacturer plus using purchase protection offered by my Visa card extended it a year further). I had early model wobbly dial fixed, since my camera was one of the first in the US shipped from Amazon. But the skipping rear dial seems unrelated, however it is a rather large problem if you don't have warranty coverage and it happens. Precision Camera is not cheap when doing out-of-warranty repairs. In my case I sent the camera to Precision to be invoiced, and they asked for enough for the repair that I just got Visa to reimburse it, bought a new one, and sold that one at a large discount while noting the back dial issue. If you want to you can get around using the rear dial more or less at all.
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