On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:31:47PM -0400, P. J. Alling wrote: > The end user is the final QC. That's true of every manufacture these > days. Read the Canon and Nikon Fora if you think their QC is any better.
You can probably make the economic justification that most end users won't notice a lot of the problems with image quality, so it isn't worth spending the money to not sell an item that the purchaser may not find the problem with anyways. > > Joseph Tainter wrote: > >I'm starting to think of those lens plants near Hanoi, the assembly > >plant in the Philippines, and perhaps Pentax as a whole as something > >like the Iraqi army. It's just never going to straighten itself out. > > > >I was hoping that Hoya was going to correct these problems, but > >apparently not. > > > >Joe > > > >Their reservations are: > > > >1. Price > > > >2. Lousy Pentax QC again--they had to try 3 samples before they got > >one with an > >even focus plane, and not even that one would work on all Pentax bodies. > > > >When they recommend Smegma ahead of Pentax, you know there's a problem. > > > >Sheesh. > > > >Rick > > > >http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > > >--- On Fri, 7/31/09, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> > >> Subject: DPReview vs the DA* 55 1.4 SDM > >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > >> Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 9:24 AM > >> dpreview.com has released their full > >> review of the Pentax smc DA* 55mm 1:1.4 SDM lens ... > >> > >> http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/pentax_55_1p4_p15/ > >> > >> Much moaning about AF; loved the lens hood. :-) General > >> agreement that it's much improved in most ways over the FA > >> 50. > >> > >> Recommended (with reservations) > > > >-- > >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. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
