I've owned numerous Pentax lenses since 1969 and have never had even a hint
of an issue with them.......
until I got the SMC DA* 16-50mm f2.8 about a year and a half ago.
It worked fine for several months but earlier this year on a photo shoot in
Utah it started not to auto focus. I could manually focus but still the
lense was less than a year old! I was going to ship it back for repair, but
then it started to auto focus again and this on again/off again operation
continues to this day.
Can't figure it out.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "paul stenquist" <pnstenqu...@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: I don't like being the squeaky wheel, but...
On Oct 2, 2010, at 5:02 AM, eckinator wrote:
2010/10/2 John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com>:
Well, to the extent that they reduce a business cost, but what I mean is
Pentax doesn't make X number of Dollars, Euro, Yen ... profit off of
each
repair as was implied.
It's just a bad business practice to manufacture shoddy goods, and then
expect to make money off of repairing defects, especially if you don't
actually repair the defects meaning the item has to be repaired again
and
again.
If Pentax does that, they won't be in business long. They've got their
faults as a company, but I just don't think they're that stupid.
agreed. not as a business objective and repairs aren't a profit center
either I hope but I'd think parts are cost (including warehousing and
administration) plus X and I'd think there'd be a kickback of sorts
from CRIS also but can't know for a fact of course. Amen to the shoddy
goods bit though, SDM doesn't cut it - I just hope DC does...
Ecke
What's DC? Have you had trouble with an SDM lens, Ecke? I know Robb and
Celio did. Has anyone else on the list had a failure? I'm genuinely
curious.
I have three that SDM lenses I've used extensively since they were first
released, and they work very well. Maybe I got lucky. Or perhaps failures
are magnified on the web, because the victims complain loudly, while those
of us who are satisfied are mum for the most part.
Paul
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