Sorry Christine, totally missed your question with the answer; yes, the advice is given for the 50-135 as well and there are some people saying for the others as well based on an assumption on which I cannot comment that part of the issue may be due to grease/fat degrading and causing the drive to go sticky. I would think this is nowadays no longer an issue with all the knowledge available how to make grease/fats to order with almost any conceivable property but I am not qualified in any technical way to say it is altogether BS either Sorry again Ecke
2010/1/13 eckinator <[email protected]>: > 2010/1/13 Christine Aguila <[email protected]>: >> >> Ecke--is this for just the 16-50? Or is this advice for the 50-135mm as >> well? Cheers, Christine > > Hi Christine, > my understanding from my readings of failure stats published in the > internet and the few official figures given locally by Pentax country > offices / importers / first line distributors indicate return rates of > roughly 1% for the 16-50 and half that for the the 50-135 which both > sold in huge numbers explaining the number of complaints that surface > on the web and thus the high profile of the issue. Some people are > suggesting there will be SDM only G2 versions of both lenses in the > not too distant future (not sure of those rumors myself) and that they > are selling their lenses to wait for the revised version. I have no > idea if that is true and I haven't a care in the world to lose any > sleep over the issue until my new lens fails again or Pentax where it > goes next week fails to adjust focal plane and lens alignment (lots of > purple fringing and center to edge softness). > Cheers > Ecke > -- 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.
