No need to apologize. Thanks for the tip! Cheers, Christine
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From: eckinator eckina...@gmail.com
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Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:21 AM
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Sorry Christine, totally missed your question
2010/1/13 Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net:
Ecke--is this for just the 16-50? Or is this advice for the 50-135mm as
well? Cheers, Christine
Hi Christine,
my understanding from my readings of failure stats published in the
internet and the few official figures given locally by Pentax
Sorry Christine, totally missed your question with the answer; yes,
the advice is given for the 50-135 as well and there are some people
saying for the others as well based on an assumption on which I cannot
comment that part of the issue may be due to grease/fat degrading and
causing the drive to
Does anyone else notice a warm up period between mounting an SDM lens
and when the AF starts functioning?
Whenever I put my 16-50 on my K10D, it takes between 5 and 15
(guestimate) seconds for the AF to start working. I should note that I
don't use the lens very often, since my DA21 is my
Hate to say so John but that is how the trouble started on my 1st
16-50 (also frequent forum opinion).
After I had the sdm motor replaced, it was the first thing again so I
returned it to Pentax for a NIB replacement.
The 2nd 16-50 is now my always on, mainly because I like the lens but
also
On 13/01/2010, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote:
Hate to say so John but that is how the trouble started on my 1st
16-50 (also frequent forum opinion).
These SDM lenses might have great optics but the number of stories
relating to failures keeps me well away, I just don't need the grief.
I'm
On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 13/01/2010, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote:
Hate to say so John but that is how the trouble started on my 1st
16-50 (also frequent forum opinion).
These SDM lenses might have great optics but the number of stories
relating to
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From: paul stenquist
Subject: Re: Speaking of SDM...
I easily have 20,000 exposures on my three SDM Pentax lenses, with no
problems. That's just one case, so it proves nothing, but I'm very
satisfied.
Go over to ForumsNeurotica and read some of the SDM
On 13/01/2010, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
I easily have 20,000 exposures on my three SDM Pentax lenses, with no
problems. That's just one case, so it proves nothing, but I'm very satisfied.
Paul
That's great Paul, you were fortunate enough to get good ones, I too
had a
Rob wrote:
Having a bad experience like that hones your
sensitivity to these sorts of problems.
I've always felt you were sensitive...
Tom
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/01/2010, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
I easily
On 13/01/2010, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote:
Rob wrote:
Having a bad experience like that hones your
sensitivity to these sorts of problems.
I've always felt you were sensitive...
You can call me whatever you like but just don't tell me my camera
gear's not fcked when it is ;-)
--
Rob
ROTFLMAO.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/01/2010, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote:
Rob wrote:
Having a bad experience like that hones your
sensitivity to these sorts of problems.
I've always felt you were sensitive...
You can call me
2010/1/13 William Robb war...@gmail.com:
Go over to ForumsNeurotica and read some of the SDM threads.
You'll consider yourself lucky.
to be fair, i also found threads indicating for the 1st gen DA*s
(16-50, 50-135) sdm related failure rates of approx 1% which doesn't
sounds too bad but is
Thanks for your comments, everyone. I sent Pentax an email about my SDM
issue, and also mentioned that time last year when the zoom locked up and
didn't work until I twisted off the lens hood. I imagine this lens has been
a lemon from the start, I was just being blissfully ignorant about it.
On Jan 12, 2010, at 16:01 , William Robb wrote:
- Original Message - From: paul stenquist
Subject: Re: Speaking of SDM...
I easily have 20,000 exposures on my three SDM Pentax lenses, with
no problems. That's just one case, so it proves nothing, but I'm
very satisfied.
Go over
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From: eckinator eckina...@gmail.com
The 2nd 16-50 is now my always on, mainly because I like the lens but
also forums say if you want to be sure your sdm motor is ok, use the
lens often, both to provoke the next failure and in case it needs a
regular workout. I've
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