Originally posted by davlee Smurfy- considering that $500 will get you a like-new graded K-x from KEH + a few extra lenses, repair doesn't seem so attractive. I have a K10D as well and hope the same doesn't happen to mine. Shutter fail seems to me analogous to the transmission dying in 8 year old car: the end. Oh well, upgrade opportunity! Good luck.
except that the shutter failed just about 3 months after the end of the canadian 2 year warranty. I paid to fix because it seemed like a better use than the value of a door stop. bought a K7 anyway but the K10 has shot another 7 k shots since it was fixed, so for $300 it was worth it. The K10 has had another failure, this time lens lockinf pin and af drive coupling to lens release button. no lenses will af and no lenses will lock on the mount. decided this time not to fix. the K10D is now, with the use of a pentax M42 adaptor a very advanced spotmatic
Actually since the failure was only in the mechanics of the mount, I have just ignored the failure. the rest of the camera works fine.