Yesterday, while travelling up a misty mountain pass, we stopped at the side of the road to grab a few shots. I had the 50mm f/1.4 on the camera. After taking a couple of shots i decided to go wide angle and swopped to the 20mm f/4. In my rush I pressed the shutter button while there was no lens mounted. My fellow traveller was eager to get going as the mist was closing in. I then took a few more shots in quick succession. The camera then refused to take any more shots. Memory card buffer thing, I thought and got back into the passenger seat.
Inside the car, I took another look. My trusty K10D was refusing to take pictures. I all did the obvious things. Power cycled, changed memory card, change battery, change lens, fiddled with the focus mode. Nothing worked. The camera still powers up and does the sensor clean shake. I could change settings and play back images but not take pictures. FWIW it was about 9 degrees Celcius outside but it was not raining, so I don't think it was the weather.
Right now the camera is sitting in the bag. I am too depressed about the whole thing to even have another look. A bit of searching on this site and others has not brought any answers . There is a thread here where somebody took off the top of his K10D and blew air into the shutter button. He got lucky and his camera came back to life.
I don't have a good feeling. When the shutter button is pressed, there is just a soft thumping noise but that is it. A bit like some relay that is not working properly. The aperture block perhaps?
What are my options? Am I missing an obvious quick fix? Don't think so, life is seldomly that simple. Do more research and have a go at a repair? That might brick it forever. Take it in to a repair shop? They might want a hefty fee just to have a look. Or it might not be economical - a K10D is not worth a great deal of money these days. Waiting for parts might take a while. Get another K10D? There is one on sale with two lenses on a local site for about 200USD. Or get something more modern? There is/was this KS-2 on sale for about 430USD.
The thing is, I really like my K10D. It has less than 30 000 on the shutter and I have two batteries for it. I have been thinking about getting a camera that will do modern things like high ISO and video, but I was going to keep the K10D.
Luckily I do have a K200D in the house to tide me over, so I can still take pics. The thing is, at present I don't feel like it.