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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-12-2016, 06:28 AM
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I went to the Camera Electronic presentation for the K1 tonight. There had a talk from Bob Litchfield who has been giving the K1 a workout over the past few days, and the State Manager of CRK and another CRK employee were also there. I guess there were about 20 punters there. There were a couple of K1's and the new lenses to play with. It is a very impressive piece of gear and the pictures are outstanding, I found the body was heavy but not over the top, but the lenses are huge......and heavy.
And for the important bit.......no I didn't buy one. But I did buy one of the Three Amigo's - the 31mm.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-22-2016, 05:46 AM
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I'm always getting emails from Camera Electronic about instore sessions they hold with various manufacturers where you can talk to a rep and try out gear, so I'm hoping they'll do a Pentax one once the K1 is released. I won't be buying one but I'd love to try it out.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-21-2016, 10:25 PM
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If you graph the failure rates for electrical products it forms a "bathtub curve" where the highest rates of failure will be either early after purchase (when it will still be under warranty) or towards the end when the product is probably reaching the natural end of its life anyway and likely wouldn't be a warranty issue. Failure rates in the middle are likely to be lower.
This is why extended warranties are usually a waste of time and simply a way for the retailer to make an extra profit on the sale.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
04-21-2016, 08:42 PM
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I'm not sure about a minimum statutory warranty as such, but according to The Checkout every product sold in Australia comes with an implied minimum service life that covers consumers. For example, if you bought a computer and the sales person said it had a 3 month warranty then that wouldn't stand up because a consumer could "reasonably" expect to get 2 years use out of it. So if it fails after, say, 13 months then you can expect that to be rectified under the Australian Consumer Law.
As an example, we bought an induction stove top that had problems for up to 3 years after we bought it. The manufacturer said it wasn't covered under warranty any more. I told them that we could expect it to last more than 12 months and they ended up fixing it both times, even though it was outside their "warranty period"
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