it's because as we get older, and as this little blue ball continues its voyage through the darkness, infinity gets closer and closer.
Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: 03 June 2009 03:44 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: SMC A* 300mm f4.0 no longer focuses to infinity! > > Just what the subject says. I was out walking with a relatively full > kit and I spied what I thought was a Cormorant, but turned out to be > what looked like a diving duck of some kind. I mounted the the F 1.7x > adapter and the A*300, and couldn't achieve focus. > > I thought it was the adapter, but after much fooling around, > I was able > to confirm that the A* 300 can no longer focus to infinity. > Even when racked in to it's further focusing distance. The focusing > scale says it's focused at or beyond infinity but the focus > point seems > to be about 200/300 yards/meters away. > > I've used this lens to good effect for the last few years. So this > problem seems to be a very recent development. > > Physically the lens seems to be rock solid. The helical moves from > minimum focus to infinity as smoothly as ever, shake it > nothing rattles > yet there is something obviously wrong with the lens. > > So does anyone know of a good lens repair place in the US, > it's a cinch > that Pentax won't repair it, and the only good camera repair place I > personally had experience with has long since dried up and blown away. > (It would also help if they didn't charge an arm and a leg for repairs > since my budge is down to one or the other). > > -- > > The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either > eating or > drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is > certainly > a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if > he may not, > he is not a free man any more than a dog. > > --G. K. Chesterton > > > > -- > 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.
