In my moment of brilliance I thought it's a great idea to clean the 2nd mirror in my dslr. The primary mirror is a translucent piece of glass that reflects some light into the viewfinder (that's the small eyepiece) and let's most of it through.
Right behind it is another mirror, that reflects the light to the AF sensor. I bet most people don't even know there are 2 mirrors in a dslr.
After I gave that 2nd mirror a thorough bath in 99% alcohol, the glue dissolved and the thing fell off.
I took it out, cleaned it and put it back in with some super glue.
Now the autofocus is terribly misaligned.
I used "debug mode" to set a custom AF microadjustment that fixes it (atleast for the center point. It wouldn't surprise me if the mirror is not perfectly parallel with the AF sensor = using af points on either side would introduce back/front misfocus.)
If that fix of mine won't work, I can always use the camera in live view mode, basically like a mirrorless camera :D
Yay, so great.
I'm not so great with cameras. Luckily I only buy cheap ones.
I scratched the sensor on my first camera, but managed to sell it for a fairly high price. It was a Pentax K30. Bought it for 250€ and sold the body for 140€ a year later.
Now this camera I got for 100€, a year ago, right before I sold my K30.
I don't think anyone would want to buy a camera that has a misplaced mirror inside. And a faulty aperture control solenoid (it's why I got it for only 100€. Fixing it was easy though :P).
The real question is - what's next?
Do I stick with Pentax? Should I buy a K3, KP, K1 or wait for a K3-III?
Or sell it all and buy a full frame Nikon system?
Or sell all my Steem and get a Sony A7III with some lenses? :D :D :D
Or get another cheapo K50/K30?
I don't know.