Originally posted by unearthimages After more tests and time lapse shooting the camera didn't flop again, but who's to say it won't happen in the future. The problem is how many K3 owners use or care about time lapse shooting, burst shoot or haven't tried it yet. The poll needs to be fine tuned to get any answers and the overall trend.
I have never used time lapse on my K3, yet I'm plagued with the mirror stutter/flutter problem which is tearing up the guts of the unit. My SD memory card periodically fails to be written to in slot #1 as well. I like the K3. I paid for one. I'd like one that functions properly and reliabily.
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Originally posted by Chris Mak I am sure that Pentax is aware of this by now. Even if all the service centers around the world fail to communicate this issue to Pentax HQ, they will get the message.
They won't give notice however, just like always, this will be fixed in silence.
A thread like this will mainly be useful to us Pentax shooters, preparing us for when it happens. It will have little to no use at all in getting the issue acknowledged or fixed: that will happen anyway, and in silence, as always...
Chris
Chris Mak, silence? What's with that? Is that some Japanese tradition? How about transparency and owning up to a problem or manufacturing defect? Nah, that'd be too candid and at odds with the kind of character we saw surrounding the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The K3 has a problem. Those who purchased it are at risk of being affected by it. Pentax/Ricoh should indemnify them by offering a non-defective unit or their $ back ASAP.
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Originally posted by DRabbit I don't think it has anything to do with being a "drama queen". It has effected reliability for some people, has caused other problems for a couple of people, and is clearly an issue in a wide range of serial numbers of K3 bodies out there. As I've said from the very beginning, if you don't have to DEPEND on the camera, it's probably not an issue you need to be all that concerned with. For someone like me it wasn't reliable at all (and the K5-II and IIs are). If I was shooting weddings, I would NOT buy this camera, because even if it only happened once in six months, that one time could be disastrous.
And, as it's been addressed a hundred times already... warranty doesn't help when the company issuing the warranty has been clear that they have no idea what causes the problem or how to fix it. Hence the reason it's important for them to figure out.
Amy, I'm going to try to return my K3 to get one that works properly or my purchase price back. Without your efforts, I doubt this would be possible. It might not be in any event.
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Originally posted by Rupert I don't have a K3, but probably should. I'm still well pleased with my K5 original, but the extra MP of the K3 are enticing.
Not fully understanding all this flapping...and it probably would not be a problem for me, since any wedding I might shoot would be a squirrel wedding ...and for a few peanuts, they would pose the wedding kiss as many times as I wanted.
However, I am wondering how this flapping action, if frequent enough, would affect the mechanics of the camera? Could it harm the long life of the mirror mechanism? This would be a concern for me, since I tend to keep a camera a long time.
Regards!
Rupert, many have found debris on their K3 sensor after the mirror stutter/flutter. That seems like it's tearing up the internals. It can NOT be good for the K3's longevity as it isn't designed to be a machine gun.
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