It should read "I am *now* very tempted to cancel my order for K-7"...
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Boris Liberman<bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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<war...@gmail.com> 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 >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Boris > -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
