On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:44 , Graydon wrote:
Which is not to say that the factory QC might not need work; it always
will. But the kinds of errors people report are the kinds of things
that go with "that got rattled" -- stuck autofocus, SDM motor won't
engage, some lens element is out of alignment, the camera turns on but
one specific function is borked -- and all of those are consistent
with
"container shipping is kinda brutal" combined with "Pentax uses really
traditional packaging, from the days where someone was going to pick
up
a smallish crate by hand".
I don't know the truth, but I think that most if not all of Pentax's
production is shipped by air to various common carrier terminals
throughout the world for distribution locally. (DHL, UPS, FedEx)
Joseph McAllister
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