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Forum: Pentax K-S1 & K-S2
11-03-2020, 01:32 AM
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K-S2 + FA 43 Ltd.... for when the friendly residents perch on your laptop
In the last one, Orlando (a Grey Shrike-thrush) is checking out my edits of photos of his offspring.
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Forum: Pentax KP
06-06-2020, 04:41 AM
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I made that mistake too 😂🤣
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-03-2020, 06:32 AM
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Yup - invigorates even old geezers like me!
Jer
Thanks much. Sure makes me smile - but they're my offspring and I love 'em beyond words. :)
Jer
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-02-2020, 03:05 PM
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:lol:
Yeah, Bob is a slow cooker.
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Forum: Pentax KP
12-30-2019, 02:02 PM
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:eek::lol::lol::lol:
Oh Myy….You guys certainly ARENT helping.
---------- Post added 12-30-19 at 15:03 ----------
I give up ! Face;;; Palm...:o:o:o
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Forum: General Talk
12-28-2019, 12:30 PM
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Only driven by a little old lady to church on Sundays.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-23-2019, 11:04 AM
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They work as one-unit, punch first, choke hold after...LOL!! Most everybody...well everybody TAPS OUT !!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-23-2019, 11:01 AM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-20-2019, 11:10 AM
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Seems like that 150-450 is a real workhorse.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
12-18-2019, 02:13 PM
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If we're talking pure square inches of 100th Anniversary swag, that's a better deal than the hotshoe ;)
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Forum: General Talk
12-18-2019, 10:06 AM
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I already was, I shoot Pentax :)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-16-2019, 01:29 PM
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And locally brewed beer .. uhm...
But I must admit .. I just happened to pass by .. I have already been eating, when I took the shot ;-)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-15-2019, 08:38 PM
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You've got stones for posting this....
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Forum: General Talk
12-15-2019, 03:53 PM
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I did this and it made Flickr Explore!
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-13-2019, 09:45 AM
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
12-11-2019, 01:16 PM
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Forum: General Talk
10-23-2019, 04:44 PM
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I would think so!
Very nice looking new watch, Mark!
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Forum: Pentax K-S1 & K-S2
12-09-2019, 07:49 AM
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Solenoid-Replacement Pentax K-S2
(Pentax K-70 is almost identical except screw of solenoid situated on left instead of right side!)
Tools required:
- Soldering iron with pencil-tip: Ersa Multi-Pro 20W or soldering needle/USB soldering iron.
>>> Butan-gas soldering-iron = A absolute No-Go! Too hot, it will do damage! <<<
- Solder: Good quality thin resin flux solder (I use thin leaded solder, for such a small work it is not really dangerous due to its lead-content)
- Screwdrivers JIS000 or PH00 + PH000 (JIS size works for all screws, PH000 a must for the solenoid screw. JIS is preferable!)
- Tweezers or precision pliers
- Headlamp is very useful, makes things easier
- photos of the K-S2 with location of screws.
Preparation:
- Print out all those photos, glue them on some cardboard, drill 2mm holes where the screws are located so you can later on stick all those screws into those holes. Makes it easier and safe due to different length of the screws.
- Make sure you took the battery out 24 hours prior undertaking the repair. This is for discharging the flash-condenser, which is well protected within the K-S2, nevertheless you don't want to risk getting a nasty shock! This condenser charges as soon as you open the pop-up-flash with battery inside the switched-on camera! So don't open the flash prior removal of the battery! You need to open it for access of 3 screws!
- For a better option how to discharge the flash-condenser read HERE
Sequence of opening the body (Body-cap is mounted on the K-mount for protection of sensor etc.)
1. Remove all screws from the bottom part:
- 11 x screws direct access (green arrows)
- 3 x behind the battery-door (blue arrows)
- Like with other Pentax DSLR, there is one screw deep within battery-case left side: DON'T take this one out!
2. Remove all 3 x screws from the left side (2 of them hidden behind the rubber grip):
3. Remove all 3 x screws from the right side (all 3 hidden behind the rubber grip):
4. Open the flash (battery is out!):
Remove the 2 x screws there underneath the pop-up-flash and the 2 x screws where next to where you fix the strap/belt:
5. Remove the 2 x screws behind the rubber-eye-cup:
6. Now you lift the TOP-PART 1 cm (with the open flash). This is very important because otherwise the front-part is more difficult to remove!
7. Set the AF-MF switch on MF (see photo #2 where it is yet on AF)! Check position again when you assemble it back!
Make sure you understand its position: When on AF, the screwdrive is out, when on MF, it is retreated inside this small hole of the stainless-steel bayonet!
Take the FRONT-PART OFF: It is a bit tight, you might have to lever a bit to release it but don't worry, this is normal!
8. Now you have access to the green solenoid:
9. Unsolder both leads and unscrew the screw on the right side (K-70 left side, only difference). Take the solenoid out.
10. Install the white-Japan-made Solenoid (the only correct solution, avoid filing/grinding/sanding!):
11. Make sure you tighten the screw, you might want to fix it with threat-locking-laquer or nail-varnish, but I never needed to do it!
12.Solder the two wires back to the pins (left=pink//right=lilac). Crucial to do a good job, hold the wires with tweezers and pull to make sure they really are well soldered!
13. Now bring the top-part (with flash) back into position for being able to test the solenoid.
You might want to fix it with 2 screws (right to the viewfinder and the on the right strapholder, so the buttons have a good contact!
CLOSE THE POP-UP-FLASH!
Insert the battery and plug on a lens.
Switch the camera ON, in Av-Mode wide open take a photo.
You can see if the solenoid actuates and the photo should be alright.
If all is alright, take the lens, battery and the 2 screws off again.
14. Lift the Top part again slightly
15. AF-MF-Switch alignement: The is crucial now:
- Outer part of AF-MF-switch on the front-housing on MF:
the same switch from the inner side of the housing, you can see the rod which needs to be aligned:
- The internal part (black plastic, white arrow left) has to be upwards...
.... so the screwdrive mechanism "retreats" into this tiny hole (white arrow right). This mentioned rod of the AF-MF switch connects with the internal part!
(you have checked this before and understood the principle well, remember!)
16. Assemble to front-part back on and then the top-part (w. flash)
17: Test AF-MF-Switch! If it doesn't work correctly, take the front-part off again and realign!
18. There is this small plastic ring on the microphone-socket, don't lose it:
When you come to the bottom-plate, make sure you haven't missed this small part, which sometimes comes off:
It slides just on and off easely and is there to protect the cables from the display:
On its place it looks like this:
and with the bottomplate back on place it looks like this:
19. Very early K-S2's had a copper-washer glued with the same red thread-locking-laquer as the solenoidscrew onto the bottom part. You can see it very clearly here on this white K-S2:
This washer was used to even out a tiny hight-difference which was solved more elegant in later versions of the K-S2 and the K-70 (same body):
20. The rest is clear now, all screws in the same order as you got them out.
21. Test the K-S2 again: All should be fine
I have not written here about the differences of the solenoids, you can read more about this important issue HERE
Good luck!
If you are interested in this very interesting history of the development of the solenoid in Pentax SLR and DSLR bodies, then read this post:
A little history about the development of solenoids in Pentax cameras |
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-08-2019, 07:39 AM
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Thanks! I've heard that happens in some places. :P
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Forum: Pentax KP
12-06-2019, 08:26 AM
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A million bright ambassadors of morning
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-05-2019, 08:02 AM
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Moi?????
;)
Just means that I congratulate the other winners
And I can not qualify for the current grand prize raffle
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-26-2019, 01:37 PM
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I made it to SRS Microsystems in Watford town centre at 10:45, just in time to hand my old K20D in for the sensor clean I’d booked up. It was one of the freebies on offer for the Pentax 100 Years celebration. The shop was packed, and most of the people in there were Pentaxians.
Ten minutes later, I’d found a front row seat in the lecture room in the cellar, and Pentax ambassador Matt Emmett started his seminar on Rediscovering Our Forgotten Heritage. There were other seminars and lighting workshops throughout the day, and like this one all free. Matt is a photographer of abandoned buildings, and takes photos with a strong graphic element; just my sort of thing. I managed to have a very brief chat with him later. Nice bloke.
Back upstairs, I had a look at some lenses. I have pretty much all the lenses I need, but I still tried a couple on my K3. The 21mm f/3.2 was a nice lens, but for me fell between two stools, being a little too wide, or not quite wide enough. Maybe the 15mm would suit me. The 20-40mm I tried would make a nice simple outfit with the 77mm. I gave both lenses back and tried the new 35 f/2 on their demo KP. Very nice it was too.
Soon it was nearly 1pm, when the President of Ricoh Imaging Mr Shinobu Takahashi was due to speak. I hurried across the way to the appropriately named but very badly spelled Pryzm nightclub, and grabbed a cup of tea. I found a table to sit at, and got into conversation with a couple who had come from Fleet in Hampshire. Other people I talked to that day had come from Birmingham, Banbury, and Yorkshire. One man had come from Sweden. I seemed to be the only one there without a goody bag, so I asked where they had come from and had to nip back SRS for one. Back at the table I had a quick look in the goody bag, and the first thing I found was a nice Pentax mug. The covers were taken off the free buffet, and we dived in.
About a quarter of an hour later we had the call to go upstairs for the president’s speech. There was one empty seat on the front row and I took it. Mr Takahashi began his speech, which was quite informal. He was pleased at the day’s excellent turnout and told us he would be in England for just seven hours. The president of the company had come all the way fromJapan just to speak to us in Watford.
Mr Takahashi told us that Pentax intends to keep on with the K mount and will continue to make DSLRs. He talked about further automation in cameras but also said Pentax realises that many of us like to use our technical skills when using a camera. This describes me.
He talked to us about the UK photo competition Pentax jointly held with SRS earlier this year, part of the birthday celebrations. He asked who in the room had entered it and I was one of several who put their hand up. It was such a good turnout, he said, that there will be another competition next year, and the prize will be a limited edition KP camera.
Wine glasses were handed out, and we raised a glass to another hundred years for Pentax. The prototype camera was unveiled. We looked at it, from our seats.
Mr Takahashi cut the cake, with a small katana like sword. He told us smiling that this was the first time he had handled such a blade. But before we could eat cake and inspect the prototype we all stood up to play rock, paper, scissors against Mr Takahashi. The winner would receive a special momento of the day.
The first round saw quite a few of us beaten by Mr Takahashi and they sat back down. Now, I’m not sure if there were one or two more rounds, but to my surprise and delight, I was the last Pentaxian standing; I had won.
Mr Takahashi presented the momento to me, and I shook his hand. It was, most appropriately, a Pentax pentaprism, engraved with “PENTAX 100 YEARS OF HISTORY” on the side that faces the focusing screen. I doubt there’s more than a couple of dozen of these in the world. It was in a finely constructed hand made box, with ‘PENTAX’ lightly engraved into the top face. I was very pleased.
Several people asked to see it, and two or three asked me if I was going to Ebay it. No. Never. It is now displayed on a shelf in my living room.
At last we had a chance to look at, but not touch, the new APS-C design. I have little to add that hasn’t already been said on this forum, except that compared to my K3, although it’s about the same width, the prototype’s lens mount looks a little bigger in proportion to the whole camera.
I saw a man with a K1 trying to get a shot of the bottom of the mirror box, saying something about trying to photograph the AF sensors.
One of the SRS bods asked us to have our portraits taken to record the day, and said we would get a Pentax cap for doing so. I soon joined the queue.
Things were quietening down. There was another workshop upstairs but like everything else, it was fully booked. It was time to go, but it had been a fine day. Pentax and SRS had been very good to us.
Captions
(If you can tell me how to place each caption with its photo, that would be very helpful)
1) The shop was crowded when I got there.
2) This man had come all the way from Sweden.
3) Sensor cleaning continues while the next seminar begins.
4) A shot with the 21mm f/3.2
5) This man let us try some lenses.
6) One of the historical cabinets at the back of the shop.
7) A Pentax man from Fleet in Hampshire.
8) Yes, the cake.
9) The audience for the president’s speech.
10) Mr Takahashi shows us the special edition KP camera.
11) Behind me were…
12) To the next 100 years.
13) Mr Takahashi cuts the cake.
14) The engraved pentaprism.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-24-2019, 05:01 AM
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Processed in the camera. Somewhere in the menu you can choose only to see red colour - the rest will be in B&W. Don't reminder where in the menu.
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Forum: Pentax Price Watch
11-22-2019, 11:57 AM
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It was a toss up, but in the end I'm too weak to lift that thing. ;)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-15-2019, 06:18 AM
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Thanks, I cuda shot at a different angle but I wuda missed the reflections!!;) Thanks for the visit!!
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