It's dpreview. It has to e taken with a grain of salt. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Follow-up: You are not the only one experiencing floating softness. See > the post here: > > http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=28043934 > > Joe > > ---------- > > Mark wrote: > > "I recently received my DA* 16-50 F2.8 back from Pentax USA (via > California Precision Service). It had a clear centering defect that > yielded softness on the right side of the image. > > "First thing I did when I got it back was to onto my "lens test range" > (a tripod and a couple of test patterns taped to the wall). > > "Two different pictures, both taken at 50mm and F8. One is sharp in the > center and left and soft on the right. One image is sharp on the center > and right and soft on the left. And now the SDM autofocus doesn't work." > > > The floating softness is definitely weird. For what it is worth, the > rumor I have seen is that centering defects are pretty hard for a > service center to fix. It has to be gotten right at the factory. > > I don't know whether this is correct. > > Joe > > -- > 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.
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