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Is there life after aperture block failure?

Started Sep 4, 2019 | Questions thread
Massao Senior Member • Posts: 2,580
Re: Is there life after aperture block failure?

LoneTree1 wrote:

Massao wrote:

The Squirrel Mafia 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?

...K-50 bodies... 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.

That is too low I once had a Canon 1000d and sold it after around 66,000 exposures.

There was a guy about 10 years ago who had 460,000 actuations on a K20D. Before Pentax decided to go on a cost-cutting binge.

Such a pity:-(

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