Advice from K200D users, please!
My secondary camera is a K200D, the primary being a K20D. The K200D is fairly new, just a few months old and still well within warranty. A couple of months ago I started noticing every now and the some strange focusing problems. Usually the camera would focus just fine, but sometimes it would just pump back and forth very fast without being able to focus on anything, no matter how high contrast and how bright the object was. And this was happening with more than one Pentax AF lens, which all worked flawlessly on my K20D. So, I sent the camera for service and as it came back about a month later (!), it was just the same after a few minutes. According to the service they had calibrated or tuned the focusing. Then they suggested that I sent the camera back with a lens that shows the malfunction and I did send it with a kit zoom. After a couple of weeks the camera came back and the AF sensor had been changed and everything was OK according to the service site. Well, so it seemed at first. But after a couple of days of little use, the problem came back a couple of times, this time with a DA 40mm ltd lens. I contacted the service again, but now they're trying to wash their hands from this and say that having tested a copuple of other K200Ds, the focusing problem is a feature and limitation of the hardware and not a failure of some sort. What the heck?
So I'd ask other K200D owners to chime in and tell about their experience. The question is not about the normal focusing difficulty that both my cameras show in low light and low contrast, hunting slowly from one extreme to the other. This is something much faster and in such a situation the camera isn't able to focus on even the easiest objects. The problem can go away in maybe five seconds by itself or last time it dissappeared by just going to the menu and exiting. Oh yeah, forgot to say that I always use center focus so it shouldn't be about switching between focus points. Have you ever had such a focusing problem on your K200D? Do you have any idea what could cause it on several lenses?
Thanks.
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