I recently read a short saying that I liked so much it became my saying of the week that I put on my work computer as a screen saver.
"Good judgement usually comes from experience; experience frequently comes from bad judgement"
I now have some experience. As most of you know my K10D got some water damage during a torrential downpour a couple of weekends ago.
http://https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/general-pentax-photography/30737-h...-too-soon.html
I am convinced now that the water damage happened
AFTER the storm, getting into the camera thru the lens. The camera was working perfectly when I got home after the storm, I dried it off, checked it out and put it away in the bag,
with the same lens still on. A day later I noticed that the lens was a bit foggy so I put the lens still attached to the camera in the window and directed the air from the window fan onto it. The lens cleared up nicely in a couple of days. Unfortunately it was then that I noticed that my camera's 4 way function switch was not working correctly. Moral of the story and my experience...If the K10D gets wet, and you have a non sealed lens attached,
as soon as possible
A: Remove the lens and put it somewhere where it can dry out
B: Carefully dry off the camera and check all functions
C: Place the camera, either with a different (dry!) lens or the body cap in a place where it can dry out too.
I think that if I had done the three steps above, I would not have had the problems I did.
Now for the happy ending. After a week plus of trying everything I and all of you could think of, the camera was still malfunctioning. So I decided to send it back for repair. Since it was a long holiday weekend I would have to wait till tomorrow to send it. This morning I decided to get it ready for its journey, but before I did, I decided to check the 4way rocker switch one final time. It now is working! Yea and hooray! My K10D is again fully functional. So my experience is this. It may take up to two weeks (!) for the K10D to dry out.
Thanks to everyone for their advice and support. I'm greatly appreciative.
NaCl(now to go out and shoot some stuff!)H2O