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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-12-2018, 11:20 PM
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Staying off topic: if you drop them you're probably better off if there is plastic involved. My 18-year old son picked up my old 645 for his new interest in analog shooting. One day it fell out of his back pack and dropped on concrete ground with the FA 150mm f/2.8 ED attached (quite a heavy package). It hit the ground with the grip next to the shutter release button first and then the lens hood. After that it would no longer fire. Since we had nothing to lose, we took the whole grip apart and found there was a strong stainless steel plate inside below the shutter release button holding all the tiny contacts and electronics that was totally bent while the plastic housing had gone back to its original shape. We bent it back to its approximate original shape using brute force and then made sure that the contacts all did what they were supposed to do. Now it works again. The lens hood, the second point of impact, came away cracked but is still usable. The short version: all that is metal in the grip was deformed, including its fastening plate. The plastic (admittedly quite strong) took the blow without failing. Still it's not recommended to repeat the exercise.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
07-28-2018, 02:15 PM
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4.60 frames per second as compared to the D810’s 5.09 frames (according to Digital Cameras, Digital Camera Reviews) does not qualify as “quite slow” in my understanding (but then English is not my first language).
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-15-2018, 03:00 PM
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Wót's wróng with yóur ó's? :D
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-15-2018, 12:50 PM
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I suppose the silent majority here has a lot of admiration for your patience--I have for sure. I'm fighting the impulse to get rude by not posting most of the time...
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