Well... 1. Cotty's favorite lenses are (ummm...) modified Pentax lenses.
2. If you want to read about QC problems, scroll through a Canon forum someday. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Wed, 8/6/08, Antti-Pekka Virjonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The body was fine in the tests. > > The lens was sent back to Japan from Germany and the Japan > factory > finally replaced it with a new one (just after 3 months of > wait!!!). I > do not think this is a fair amount of time to wait for * > series lens > service. > > The new lens is good optically, BUT: they have not > assembled the lens > correctly so the bayonet mount for the original lens hood > is in a wrong > angle. I cannot use the hood because it sits with about 30 > degrees of > rotation to the right (looked from the back of the camera) > and blocks > some light at wide angles. > > The third sample of this brilliant lens is coming today or > tomorrow. I > think they will strongly need to improve final testing and > QA. > > I am a bit hesitant to buy another DA* lens now. Should I > sell all my > Pentax gear and follow Cotty to the dark side now ;-)? > > Antti-Pekka > ________________________________________ > > Antti-Pekka Virjonen > > Computec Oy > R&D Turku > Fiskarsinkatu 7 D > FIN-20750 Turku Finland > > Puh. +358 20 7908 300 > GSM +358 500 789 753 > Telefax +358 20 7908 319 > > Y-tunnus 1974184-5 > Kotipaikka Helsinki > > www.computec.fi > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
