PJ, I can recommend Eric Hendrickson also known as Pentaxrepair on the internet. He's an experienced Pentax repair guy from Chicago now retired in Tennessee. http://pentaxs.com/index.html Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:11 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought all A lenses were on the no longer serviced list. But I'll look > into it and give them a call. It's toll free so it couldn't hurt. > > > paul stenquist wrote: >> >> I would check with Pentax Colorado. They might still be able to repair >> that lens. >> Paul >> On Jun 2, 2009, at 10:43 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> 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. >> > > > -- > -- > > 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.
