With years of abuse, my K20D finally dead a few months back. Well, it's not dead. It's very strong indeed, except I have broken the top cover and resulted in malfunction of the mode dial and light-meter switch, which makes the multi-segment meter and P mode gone. Not a very big deal for me.
However, another problem make me put away the K20D in the deepest corner of my camera box forever: it's a strange horizontal line on EVERY picture I took with K20D, jpeg or RAW. At first, there was a dead pixel on every pic. Easy fix with Pentax because K20D comes 'pixel mapping' function, handily in the setup manual. It turns out to be a disaster:
INSTEAD OF JUST ONE DEAD PIXEL, A HORIZONTAL LINE TOGETHER WITH MAPPING ARTIFICE APPEARS ON EVERY PIC. (See below pix)
While dead pixel can be easily fixed in Lightroom, the mapping artifice is very troublesome because I have to fix it manually.
My K20D served a good 70,000 shutter count. So I just let it R.I.P. in my camera dry box. Amen,
I get a used K5 instead.
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