All manufactures send review copies of their equipment to large outlets
such as DPReview. I would not be at all surprised if Nikon and Canon
did extra special QC on the lenses they send out and Pentax just grabbed
them of the line. That would jibe with the whole marketing ans sales as
an afterthought mentality exhibited until just lately.
Mark Erickson wrote:
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.
What struck me was that all three samples tested by DPReview had problems.
Also, Andy Westlake, the DPReviewer, stated that DPReview has not seen
problems of this kind in the 50mm Canon or Nikon lens that they have tested.
Here's his post:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=32551606
Here's the key quote from the end of the post:
"Over the past few years I've looked in some detail at a lot of lenses from
all manufacturers. From Pentax we've had a disproportionate number of bad
samples - most notably 16-50s and 17-70s - and they really need to sort out
their QC. This is a pity, because their lineup for APS-C is (as I've said
before) the most coherent of any manufacturer, especially with those lovely
Limited primes. "
--Mark
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