Is there life after aperture block failure?

peterpainter wrote:

Oiche wrote:

peterpainter wrote:

Oiche wrote:

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.

Yes, a K70 was reported with the same problem here on this forum - much as I'd like the flippy screen, I don't want to take the risk!

Yes the Iindian fellow takes the bird pictures, that was one person, what about all the other models with various faults reported?

The flippy screen is a godsend, a must have for me now. I used it extensively on Monday, for macro it is definitely a must have.

I would buy a Ford but I seen one broken down on the motorway once. 😃

I'll keep the K50 for the time-being and experiment with my old Praktica lenses whilst looking around for something else. At the moment it's still fine for the macro stuff I do using an old Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon and extension tubes.

I guess, tbh, I was more curious about who had had bought what camera as a follow-up.

Yes, it's only one on DPR. I don't know if there are any others - and the annoying thing is that I don't know anything at all about how other brands fare. At the moment it's the 'once bitten twice shy' feeling with the Pentax K30/50/KS(?)2/K70 line.

Very few reported on the much bigger Pentax Forums. Other brands fail too, like I said a 6% rate for all cameras apparently. Anything you buy can fail, look at the rate of complaints about decentred lenses and 'bad copies', what do you do, not buy any lenses? I've never had this problem either, only problem I had was water getting into a defective LCD seal in my first K-30 and Pentax said it was a quality control problem, sorry Sir so have a brand new one.