You may have been wrong assuming that increase of price is caused the increase of investement on the part of the manufacturer, as this is exactly not how it appears from where I stand. I am not very tempted to cancel my order for K-7 in Israel as the cherry picking process can become real big pain in the lower behind...
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:15 AM, William Robb<[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Liberman" > Subject: FA 50/1.4 trouble > > >> Hi guys. >> >> After some deliberation I decided to shell $250 for brand new FA >> 50/1.4 for my daughter. It arrived some days ago, and it says made in >> Vietnam. Now, I don't have anything against it except that this lens >> is soft at f/8 outdoors focused manually by the split screen. It is >> going back to B&H but honestly, I am very disheartened by this. This >> is something that should be just flawless, but it is anything but(t). >> >> *sigh* > > Look at all the trouble DP Review had in aquiring a good copy of the > DA*55/1.4. > Seriously though, Pentax appears to be treating quality control as a > consumer responsibility, with little or no QC being done during the > manufactuing process. > It wouldn't be so bad were it not for their lack of visibility in stores > making it necessary to buy their product via mail order and then forcing the > customer to deal with return methods that are inconvenient, expensive and > time consuming. > I had hoped that their recent jacking up of prices would have a > coressponding relationship to quality control, as when one pays more money > for something, there is an expectation of increased quality. > > 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. > -- Boris -- 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.
