Contact Eric Hendrickson <[email protected]> website,
<http://pentaxs.com/index.html>, I've sent three lenses to him, a FA
43mm limited that locked up solid, an A 24mm which I dropped and was
damaged even worse than you describe, (to give you and idea of the
damage, this is what it looked like after he straightened the filter
threads
<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PDML/smcpa24filterring.html>, the lens
focuses properly and feels almost as good as it did before the
accident. Just won't mount a filter, not as important in the digital
world as analog), and my A*300 f4.0 which seemed to work properly but
wouldn't actually focus to infinity. His charges were extremely
reasonable and included return shipping. I was ready to completely
write off the A 24mm.
On 7/5/2011 7:27 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
I was out for dinner in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at a decent joint
featuring really snazzy sandwiches, draft beer, and live music. Check
the picture at https://plus.google.com/107606703558161507946/posts/fb6ZAa3Vid6
Anyhow, we rearranged some tables and during the 30 seconds in which
the K-5 with the 40mm Limited was sitting unguarded on the floor the
waiter kicked it down a couple of stairs. Hard floor. It seems to
have landed on the lens. Now the 40mm won't focus further than about
halfway out; put it in manual and you can't physically turn the focus
ring.
Pain and anguish, etc, but I'm glad the lens took the fall for the
camera. Anyhow, this is my first Pentax lens breakage. Anyone have
insights as to whether this is apt to be fixable? One goes to a
dealer, I suppose, and they send it off?
-T
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Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!
--Marvin the Martian.
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