I should point this out to you guys,
2 of the k7's are from amazon, used the first one for light video, the 2nd I never turned on video or lv and still got the green or spider line, the 3rd from bh had the line right out of the box.
all the serial numbers were 3377xxx, 3378xxx and 3379xxx, all lower early serial numbers, so 2x spider lines in the middle and one off to the side.
The line was pointed out to me by a client at first, this is before I found the thread and started posting. This means I had to reshoot a studio session for free.
After 3 in a row I simply can not chance it anymore, the last k7 will go back for a refund and I will just wait for the k7n or k8. I'm accepting early adopter isues here and I do love this camera, it's improvements over the k20D are dramatic, shooting with it showed that it's up to par with the d90 and 50d competition in low light, af speed, exposure, actually better wb and control than either, it really will be sad to send this one back but for me business comes first and the K20D while it will remain as the stable studio cam can't cut it on a stage or runway, plus the studio owner ( website/mag owner as well ) probably won't want to see another k7 after having to reshoot an entire session.
Pentax needs to realize also that the K7 when owners of D300's and 50/40D's played with it were impressed enough to want to borow it even ( rare for a canikon user in general ). The camera is a beauty but these are the same guys who are notorious pixel peepers and I dared not let them fully inspect the images, in a few cases the green line showed up even on the k7's lcd and they did see it clearly.
I will also point out this island is probably one of the harshest places to test a camera other than the desert or artic, here is where the original 5d mirror glue killed several units, the d90 gets the lines after a few min in the sun and many D300's had moisture problems. The K7 is just another to add to the list, today the temp is 35c, humidity near 85% blazing hot sun and my K20D can fire up to 2000 shots a weekend in this with no problems.
BTW I have been in contact with Pentax usa and they are aware of the issue and appear to be looking into it now. So at least they are not sweeping it under the carpet.
sorry I mean not, not to say now,
BTW the Canon forums are such snobs.
One addition to show the situations where the issue occurs for others
back stage at a fashion show hi iso
low iso studio ( first shot of a test shoot to )