----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Erickson" Subject: FA* and DA* lenses (was Re: A70-210/4 assessment- If AF matters,how about the SMC FA80-200/2.8)
> > What keeps me from buying the 60-250 (besides the $$$) at this point is my > lack of trust in the Pentax DA* lenses. I have no interest whatsoever in > dropping more than $1000 for something that may or may not have a fatal > design/manufacturing flaw. I have a 16-50. It went back to Pentax USA > twice because of quality control problems. The second time they replaced > it > with a different copy. It seems ok, but I've lost some confidence. > > I decided to stay away from the 50-135 due to the rash of SDM failure > reports at a couple of different forums. Pentax is going to have to > convince me that they can reliably manufacture durable lenses before I buy > another one. Maybe a year from now, if the 60-250's out "in the wild" are > still working, I'll consider one. This is huge, actually. It's astounding how many SDM failures just all of a sudden have been reported. It's made worse by the fact that SDM isn't giving a significant performance increase (it's significanly slow on the 55/1.4), and if the lens has a screw drive, you can't switch over to it if the focus motor fails. 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.
