Hi Ron, no, I'm not having probs with Pentax...Most on here know my story...so I left out a few parts. Last year, I got some very bad water spots on "my" ist DL sensor, and since the wife had an ist DL also, I never sent mine in to be cleaned, because of a weak financial situation. Well earlier this year, I left hers sitting on top of my van when I had to make a trip to the VA hospital. About 3 miles from the house...I heard a thump, thump, looked in the rearview mirror to see it bouncing down the freeway. We've been without cameras since. It probably would've been cheaper to send off my camera for some serious cleaning, but since Christmas was here, I decided to by this Kodak as an interim until I save to fix mine and buy her a new K20D. Finances are still bad, but the New Year forecast looks pretty good for us, financially, and hopefully we can get back to the DSLR's soon, and will have a good backup camera to boot.
I guess I've been lucky with all my cameras. I had to send my wifes back shortly after we got it because of dust on the sensor we couldn't get off and neither could the shop where we bought it. But since we got it back, it's been great, as has mine.