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Is there life after aperture block failure?

Started Sep 4, 2019 | Questions thread
Oiche Senior Member • Posts: 2,045
Re: Is there life after aperture block failure?

peterpainter wrote:

So it happened. My K50 after nearly 4 years and 4,000 shots has succumbed. I don't think I'll be getting it fixed (or fixing it myself - too clumsy). The K50 was great, a weather-sealed body and lens, important in this climate, at an affordable price. I don't trust a K70 because of the same issue, so what next?

What have other people done?

Does the K-70 have the same problem? Only been a few reported, threads on PF deal with this, every camera model has a failure rate, 6% or something. Both my K-30s were fine regarding aperture failure, a faulty seal allowed water into the LCD and destroyed the first camera, Pentax replaced it free out of warranty after 2.5 years

Pentax only sells 2 APSC models so wait until Black Friday time and get one or the other much cheaper. I got a K-70 with 42% off last year, KP was at least a third cheaper too.

K-70 was a massive upgrade over the K-30, K-50 is the same camera.

Sell your K-50 as described, it will still sell, used to get £120 or so a few years back but working ones go for that now.

I actually have a K-30 that needs to be sold, in excellent condition and has the K-50 firmware installed.

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