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Is there life after aperture block failure?

Started Sep 4, 2019 | Questions thread
drummercam Senior Member • Posts: 1,964
Re: Carelessness, stupidity, or irresponsibility?

Massao wrote:

These “mistakes”, i.e., a less reliable or faulty component in camera/lens has happened to almost all brands. The difference is in their reaction. For instance, Nikon d600 had an issue with shutter curtains; they immediately released d610 with a different shutter and that issue did not occur again. Pentax on the other hand, kept selling models after models with the same faulty component. Same happened with SDM lenses. I don’t know if its carelessness, stupidity, or irresponsibility.

See this for a very thorough investigation. Scroll to entry by very helpful user named photogem at Pentax Forum. Even though my own K-S2 suffered from ABF (which I easily fixed today at home), after reading the full story compiled by photogem, I think the bad solenoid is more a case of unexpected bad luck rather than carelessness by Pentax.

https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/16-pentax-news-rumors/367518-amateur-photographers-uk-predicts-end-pentax-63.html#post4681812

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