Don, I did a little poking around, the last MSRP for this lens was $345.00, which gave it a street price between $150.00 and $225.00 in my experience. I've seen them go on e-bay for as much as $125.00, not recently, but the element separation problem has been getting a fair amount of word of mouth. About the lack of sharpness on digital I have no real clue, except that one of the symptoms, (in my copy of the lens at least), that the separation had begun, was the the photos made with it weren't as sharp as previously. It is kind of what you would expect from a developing cataract, which is what my lens looks like it has now.
-Peter Don Sanderson wrote: >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 >> >> >> > > > -- 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
