Originally posted by paulh Long story short, I snagged one off the 'bay, listed as "for parts or not working"
Sadly/luckily I've had the same experience, several times: Best score was a K10d, with the claim of "faulty, look at last picture". And it was the rear of screen of the camera, with the over exposed area's all blotchy, as per normal.... So I jumped on it and got it for less than lens value.
Originally posted by paulh I didn't see a version of Exiftool for Linux, other than a command-line one
I use linux, and that's how I've check all of mine. I think the highest shutter count I've got on any of my 'cheap' pentaxs is 30,000. The rest have all been around 5-10,000. Of course, they all work perfectly. If you want I can check up the exact command I use.