See this thread here (machine-translated), the OP and the first poster who replied purchased their K-5 lately and found the same, i.e., dust inside and underneath the monitor of their K-5 units.
This just reminds me of the old reported cases of dust inside the monitors of different K10Ds, which was reported widely by various K10D users before, back to 2007.
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Johan · 746 weeks ago
Quoted from 2nd poster in that thread:
"When I buy a test machine and found that there is grain dust MON into the surface, a clerk to see to instantly replaced one than I am. . . ."
"When I buy a test machine..." ?
Did the poster just said he bought a 'test' set (a.k.a. "display set")? Usually a set the shop or store has used for display and demonstration to customers to touch or test and usually sold a a heavily discounted price because of that fact?
Set that usually will have repeated lens changes? Dust entering each time lens is changed?
Unless Google translation messed up.
But if you're expecting us to read straight up post-translation, I'm reading it that way and looks like the 'fact' is full of holes right from the start.
RiceHigh 110p · 746 weeks ago
That poster just says when he tested a new K-5, he saw dust inside it for the first unit, so he asked for another one. In fact, he did the QC job for Pentax!
Johan · 746 weeks ago
Ditto a bunch of fellow Pentaxians here.
Might be an isolated case due to a QC oversight.
Not as widespread as the Nikon D7000's hot pixel and AF problems.
http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6...
http://www.hiwhy.com/2010/11/13/nikon-d7000-autof...
But, hey, its a Nikon, right? So perfect they can't be wrong, right? Nikon QC could not have missed these issues even users are experiencing them in droves, right?
Even if its a real widespread problem, its not newsworthy enough, right?
Unlike Pentax cameras which are eternally flawed in every microscopic detail and newsworthy each one of them.
So I guess I'm forced to spend the next few weeks happily snapping away photos on my 'flawed' K-5 while these D7000 owners can spend their time with their new cameras at the local service centers getting a fix or awaiting replacements.
Poor me. And other K-5 owners like me.