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Is there life after aperture block failure?

Started Sep 4, 2019 | Questions thread
The Squirrel Mafia
The Squirrel Mafia Senior Member • Posts: 1,017
Re: Is there life after aperture block failure?
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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?

I repaired my black K-50 in August of 2017 by replacing the "green" solenoid with a "white" one. Despite my lousy soldering skills, it has been trouble free since then. I repaired the red K-50 in June of 2018. I did a slightly "better" job with the soldering on that one. Hahaha! Been trouble free since. The funny thing is that my K-50 bodies get tons of use. They failed at high shutter actuations. One was at 25,000 & the other like at 32,000. You hear about a lot of people that get failures at very low shutter actuations like at +-1,000.

I wouldn't recommend any K-50 variants (K-30/500/S1/S2) to anyone. So far it seems like very few K-70s have had solenoid failures. It's definitely not on the level of the K-50 variants.

As for now, I'll keep shooting the K-50 bodies as I wait for the K-3II replacement.

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