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Is there life after aperture block failure?

Started Sep 4, 2019 | Questions thread
Pentax645 Contributing Member • Posts: 968
Re: Is there life after aperture block failure?

rehess 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?

I got a FA 28-105 and continue. "green button" metering isn't so bad.

Green button metering really isn't so bad......but accurate focusing gets more difficult as the focal length increases. Wide angle K/M/A lenses are in a way better than AF/D designs because they have really usable DOF and distance scales. At about 35 mm or so this gets increasingly cumbersome, and at 105mm tedious for landscape purposes.....if the assumption is that AF DOF is more accurate.  Maybe, maybe not so it's trust the AF or make the effort to verify.

.............Larry

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