My K-3 III was delivered today after being repaired by Precision. It took just over a month from my sending it in, they had to wait a couple of weeks for a replacement top plate. One might think that if service were their goal, they'd keep a better stock of spare parts on hand. sigh. It seems to work, as does the $75(with shipping)Tamron 18-250 I got to replace the broken Pentax 18-270, which I got to replace the broken 18-250. Sigh, I sent the original 18-250 off for repair just before I ended up getting my K-1, and only did a perfunctory test on it, and didn't notice that it no longer focused at full zoom. When I did eventually notice the problem, Tamron informed me that they no longer worked on that lens, and wouldn't even fix it, even if it was just a factory misadjustment. sigh. I'm going to need to go back and re-RTFM on the K-3III, they've changed so much in the UI since the K-1, I could barely find anything, like turning off the focus beep, or setting it to shoot in raw. For some reason the filesave type is showing as RAW+DNG In any case, it's nice to have it back. There are a lot of aspects of its UI that I've definitely been missing, both when using the K-1 and especially on the OM-5 -- Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com sent from ret13est

Larry, good luck with your repaired K-3 III. Your story makes me even more careful in carrying my cameras. Henk Op 2024-06-25 om 01:08 schreef Larry Colen: > My K-3 III was delivered today after being repaired by Precision. It took just over a month from my sending it in, they had to wait a couple of weeks for a replacement top plate. One might think that if service were their goal, they'd keep a better stock of spare parts on hand. sigh. >