So sorry to hear that, John. All you have left to do is to check and clean mount contacts especially the two in five o'clock position inside the body and their counterparts on the lens. I recall several threads here and elsewhere of SDM possibly needing regular exercise so "rarely gets used" caught my eye and hopefully isn't the reason this is happening to you. Good luck Ecke
2010/8/10 John Celio <[email protected]>: > So I went camping last weekend and decided to bring my 16-50, which > rarely gets used and would be better suited for outdoors use because of > its weather-sealing. I didn't bother to test the lens before leaving; > it had worked just fine when I got it back from repair last year. Note > that my K10D went out for repair last winter and I hadn't used the lens > on the camera since it came back. > > Lo and behold, upon reaching Samuel P Taylor State Park and mounting the > lens, the AF wouldn't work! Not a twitch, squeak or grind was seen or > heard. I ended up having to spend the weekend shooting primarily with > my D-FA 100 (the only other lens I brought). When I wanted a wider > angle I had to focus the 16-50 manually, which I don't trust since my > K10D still back-focuses (despite that being one of the reasons I sent it > in last winter). > > A friend with a K7 is letting me test my lens on his camera on Friday, > but in the meantime can anyone think of anything I should check on the > lens or camera (besides the AF switches on each) to see if there is some > easy fix I'm missing? > > A note to any Pentax-employed people reading this: I am really fucking > angry with your products and customer service. You need to bring your > repair department back to Colorado, where it belongs. > > John > > -- > http://www.neovenator.com > http://www.cafepress.com/jacelio > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
