I think what you mean was Pentax was trying to design a lens which was
beyond their capability.
regards,
Alan Chan
>[Before throwing it away I dissasembled it. I finally found out why they
>(Belgium) never where able to fix it. It was designed in a way that auto
>stopdown and power zoom couldn't work simultaneously. You have to choose
>one or the other. I found out that the power zoom contacts touched the
>aperture mechanism so that it prevented the lens to stop down by the spring
>action. If you bent the power zoom contacts away from the aperture
>mechanism then they wouldn't couple to the power zoom contacts on the lens
>mount then giving no electricity to the lens.]
>P�l
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