Joseph McAllister pentaxian at mac.com wrote >On Aug 4, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Charles Robinson <charlesr at visi.com> wrote: > >> I've wondered if this is "normal" or if I'm just pixel-peeping too >> much. >> >> Web-sized it's almost noticable... >> >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org/twinsdays/2008/content/IMGP2034_large.html >> >> 100% crop it's as obvious as the nose on my face: >> >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2008/imgp2034_crop.jpg >> >> Is it time for me to send this in (again)? > >I would call Pentax repair and ask them if you can send them a copy of >the corner enlargement. I personally think it's atrociously bad. Hell, >my old Tokina ATX Pro f 2.8 80-200 mm seems to do a bit better than >that for much less cost. > >http://homepage.mac.com/jomac/Chromatic-Aberration-Test/index.html > >And yes, I know the Pentax EXIF has a hard time identifying the lens. >Thinks it's either a smc PENTAX-F 35-105mm F4-5.6 or SIGMA AF 28-300 >F3.5-5.6 DL IF. Blame Tokina. > >Joseph
Yeeks. That would be unacceptable to me. You should definitely send the lens back and send a copy of the image with it. Pentax USA has been had issues with doing repairs correctly the first time for me, but they've always been responsive to problems. --Mark -- 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.
