Hello Pentax Forum,
Short version: Took 99 flash photos, once every 5 seconds, and the lens/clear cover
melted from the flash and now it hardly closes properly. How would I go about getting this fixed? Any ideas? Please scroll to bottom for photos.
Longer version: Long time reader, first time poster. My new-to-me K-7 arrived from KEH about a week back and after a very rocky SD card related start the camera started working flawlessly. The battery in particular is leaps and bounds ahead of my wildest expectations.
Because it was used it did not come with a manual, so I was confused when plugging the battery into the charger, the light would light up green, instead of red with the K10d charger. I assumed it was not charging so I did my best to kill the battery on a hike and 600 photos later, still ticking, and the charger was still green.
I decided I must kill the battery and started to use the interval shooting. Took 99 photos twice in a row and still says full. Decided the flash would kill it quicker, so I set it to take 99 photos at 5 second intervals. 8 and a half minutes later it was done, the battery was finally reading no charge. Still a green light! Well I have since learned the green light illuminates while the battery is charging... doh!
Went to close the flash and it was burning hot, noticed that the thing looked weird and it barely stays closed now. It seems to just have melted from the top and bowed outward and downward. I am thinking of taking some fine grit sand paper to remove the protruding bits of plastic, but I kind of want it to be like it was about 12 hours ago. Any ideas? Easy to repair? Impossible? I am on a time limit (I have less than 2 months before I leave the country for 2 years).