RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: DIY Reminder: Pentax Service Manuals @ the Pentax-Hack(.Info)

Thursday, February 17, 2011

DIY Reminder: Pentax Service Manuals @ the Pentax-Hack(.Info)

For those who just wants to give it a try on your old cameras and models! :-)

http://www.pentax-hack.info/documents/downloads.html
(Click to Download)

K10D Full Service Manual:-
http://www.pentax-hack.info/firmware/k10_gx10/k10d_sm.zip
(Click to Download)

Service Manuals of *ist D, DS, DL, DL2, K100D and K100D Super (and a Brief Supplement for the K110D):-

http://www.pentax-hack.info/firmware/k10_gx10/older_sm.zip

Happy camera repairing/modding/hacking or whatsoever, no matter what! ;-D

Anyway, unfortunately, the Pentax-Hack does not update any new (hacking) information for newer Pentax DSLR models anymore, neither on the hardware disassembly/repair/adjustment/calibration nor about software/firmware hacks and tricks! Too bad.. :-( Maybe the source of theirs was fired already? :-o

Warning and Disclaimer: Do anything at your own risk and bear all the responsibilities and consequences by yourself!!

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Doc · 735 weeks ago

THANK YOU THANK YOU!
dropped my k10d today and the shutter locked inside the body, had to use the vertical grip to take pics, talk about awkward, should be a good easy fix... but i don't like to jump in without seeing where i am going usually.

(can't afford a K5 yet, still saving my money)

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RiceHigh 110p · 735 weeks ago

You're welcome. Wish you succeed in your repair.

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Doc · 735 weeks ago

Nope, no go.... top of the shutter switch was completely off, it is somewhere inside the top part of the camera. (i guess i dropped it pretty good)

:(

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RiceHigh 110p · 735 weeks ago

Oh, no..

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Doc · 734 weeks ago

Left it with Allen at peachtree camera repair here... (hopefully it won't cost much)
:0

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Doc · 734 weeks ago

BUT still, nice to have the manual on hand for "just in case" simple repairs!

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RiceHigh 110p · 734 weeks ago

Good luck! And hope you succeed next time~

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Roger · 735 weeks ago

Is there a kx service manual available?
Thank you

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RiceHigh 110p · 735 weeks ago

Nope. There is not.

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ullike · 727 weeks ago

http://www.pentax-hack.info/firmware/k10_gx10/old... needs password....

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RiceHigh 110p · 727 weeks ago

Password is inside the zip file!

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Tom · 701 weeks ago

Thank you!
Your link to the service manual finally made it possible for me to fix a Samsung GX10 camera (similar to Pentax K10D). It had a broken mirror/shutter motor. Because there is so little public available information about this camera´s inside, I decided to write a short report about what I did, including some photos: http://tomelec.net/w/index.php/GX10/K10D_Repair
Again thank you for your excellent blog!

Tom

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RiceHigh 110p · 701 weeks ago

Congrats and thanks for sharing! Btw, your wiki style webpage looks interesting and could you tell me a bit more for how to make it? Thanks.

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Tom · 701 weeks ago

Thank you. My wiki is in an early stage - less content and non fitting default settings. But it´s growing and getting really useful :)
I was just looking for an easy way to write notes for myself and share various information with others and ended up with mediawiki after triying several other wiki- and blog frameworks. Also I wanted to run it as an independent website. For me, mediawiki is the most useful and transparent choice. It runs on PHP and uses MySQL or PosgrSQL as database. See: http://www.mediawiki.org
Mediawiki was originally written for the use on Wikipedia, it´s free and open source.
Setup is easy if you have a webserver, PHP and a database already running. Anyway, setting these up does not require magic skills nowdays ^^.
Luckily I can use a friend´s web- and database server for my page.

What I´m missing in mediawiki right now is the comment feature we are using right now. Maybe there is a plugin, don´t know...

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HappyBuddha · 599 weeks ago

Thanks for the link to the k10d service manual! Great read on educating oneself on the technicalities of DSLR maintenance and repair!!

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garry · 573 weeks ago

In my K-R any memory card inserted camera gives "card error".As I understand it may be two reasons for such a reaction, and both indicate a problem with camera.The first-something is wrong with the contact card reader system, the second-defective controller chip on the electronic board.In the second case it is necessary to know exactly what the chip card reader controller has a function: whether the first warm up to melt the balls in the flux, or to seek a replacement chip.So hence the question: where to find the photo e-card to K-r locations chip-card reader controller.

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steve · 456 weeks ago

check fingers in camera, they may not be contacting. I fixed a pair with a stainless steel (stiff) dental pick and used a SD card adapter with a micro/sd chip so as to minimize the insertion cycles of the SD chip.

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Graham Hart · 343 weeks ago

looking for a K5 service manual so my local repairer will attempt a sensor clean for me.

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Ben · 211 weeks ago

Hi! I was wondering if you ever had a fix for a K100D issue? I have it right now, no shutter, no viewfinder icons, no autofocus, everything else works. It has a steady, repetitive, light electronic "ticking" or clicking noise if you hold down the shutter. It also makes this noise if you hold down "ok" or any directional arrow, or the Exposure Compensation button. The rest of the buttons work fine. Have you encountered this issue and successfully fixed it?

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