So today I temporarily cut off my right hand. No, not really, but I did send in my camera to Pentax to have the AF fixed, and it does feel like I've lost something important. I was just getting so tired of ending up with improper focus and not knowing it till I could see the photo on my computer screen. I realized last night that my warranty runs out in a couple days, so I overnighted the camera to Colorado today.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I first noticed the problem when I got the DA21 Limited a couple months ago. If I tried to take a close-up of something with that lens, focus was almost always off. Then I was shooting my work's holiday card photo last week (with the FA50 1.4), and, well, I got the other side of the street more in focus than me and my coworkers. The AF told me my subject was in focus, but I guess it lied. I looked at some older photos from this past year and noticed the problem over and over again, with a variety of lenses. I'm hoping they'll get the camera back to me before the New Year, but I'm not holding my breath. I saw how long things could take when I worked at Reed's, and although it's not terrible, it's still making me wonder how I'm going to last a month without a camera. On the upside, even though I sold all my 35mm and MF cameras this past summer, I still have my Auto110. Now to find film... John Celio -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
