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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
10-24-2022, 12:12 AM
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Personally, I have never bought a ‘Brand’ battery. I always keep the one that came with the body, and keep a maintenance charge on it. I will use this battery for troubleshooting, and to return with the body for warranty work. The rest of the time I use aftermarket. In my K5 and K3-II i have been using DSTE, but I have a four pack of Kastar batteries on the way.
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
10-22-2022, 02:14 AM
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It’s unfortunate that B&H would post information that is misleading and damaging to the Pentax brand. Rest assured, if Pentax was going to move away from the Li90 battery, it would be reported in every trade rag. This battery powers the lead camera’s in all three of the Pentax DSLR product segments. Bare in mind the only difference between the D-Li90 and the D-Li90E is that the D-Li90E complies with EU RoHs requirements. The batteries are functionally the same. Well I guess “Functionally the same” might be a bit of an over statement. Since the D-Li90E is constructed using lead free solder, the life cycle durability will be shorter. It is not a trivial task moving from leaded to lead free manufacturing. There are definite design issues that take any company some years to overcome.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
05-07-2020, 09:30 PM
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Is there evidence of a hard drop? It could be a loose connector. Also, if you can get ahold of the Pentax Service manual it should tell you how to interrogate the camera for failure codes. If you’re just going to “wing it” I suggest you buy a donor camera that has severe mechanical damage, but the display and other electronics work. A good candidate work be one with a broken shutter or blown aperture motor/armature. You can then replace components between cameras till it works.
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