----- Original Message ----- From: "Gonz" Subject: Re: Pentax USA and the DA* 16-50 F2.8
>I have a suspicion that it might be another case of front/back focus, > given that they describe the problem looking like the image is out of > focus. At 2.8, it would take very little in the way of mis-focus for > a problem to show up. They need to verify whether or not the lens has > a focus point somewhere other than where they think it is before > blaming it on some QC issue. It might be the camera or the operator. The K10 is known to have focusing issues. It is pretty hard to blame a picture being out of focus on the lens in any circumstance though, as it is only one of the three things that need to be working properly to get a well focused image (the other two being, as you say, the operator and the camera. I noted that no one on the Pentax forum thingie mentioned trying to refocus the lens slightly to see if it could be brought into sharper focus, even if it meant looking slightly out of focus in the viewfinder. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
