Hi Peter, the last new prices I remember were in the $200-$225 range. I wouldn't mind the price except all of the samples I've tried on the ist-D gave very mediocre results. Being a glutton for punishment I've bought seven of these little devils looking for a good one. ;-) Even the perfect looking ones gave pretty disappointing results on the digi. It's hard to get more than $75-90 for them so I don't know if it's worth the investment. I was rather hoping Pentax would admit to their construction flaw and offer a bit better deal. No such luck though. This was one of the original Japanese made ones so I might go ahead anyway. Rather irks me though that THK CLA'd my ATX 80-200/2.8 for less that amount.
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > P. J. Alling > Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:18 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Reply from Pentax on FA28-70/4 repair. > > > If they're going to rebuild the whole lens it's more than worth it. The > lens had a list price of about $400. if I remember correctly. The > repair cost they're quoting you is very reasonable. I expected it to > cost more than $100.00 it looks like I'll be calling Pentax next week. > > Don Sanderson wrote: > > >As most of you will recall I've been trying to get an answer from > >Pentax as to whether they can fix the fogged/cracked element in > >the FA 28-70 lens. > >Sent it to Colorado last week, got a snail-mail reply today. > > > >Well, the good news is that they _can_ fix it. > >Sounds like they'll pretty much rebuild the whole thing. > >The bad news is that it will run $87.00. ;-( > >Not sure it's really worth it. I'll have to decide. > > > >Don > > > > > > > > > -- > When you're worried or in doubt, > Run in circles, (scream and shout). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
