P. J. Alling wrote: > I don't know personally, however the word from people who tried to get > these repaired by Pentax was that the aspheric lens had delaminated and > couldn't be repaired no parts were available, a cemented group could be > repaired, but it might not be economically feasible slight difference. > It seems that a while ago more of the aspheric elements were found and > the lenses could be repaired, I was able to purchase a re-manufactured > copy, for about what the price of repair would have been.
I know a shop that has *two* of these lenses, new in the box, on the shelf. If they sell one, it will technically be under Pentax factory warranty. Interesting. -- 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.
