That's good to know, haven't been online that much. I didn't spring for it before because I felt that I can't buy online and need an extended warranty -adding too much to the price (and here in Canada we pay extra). My concern was that I heard that people that use SDM sporadicaly have problems -and I wouldn't be using it that often- so I've sticking to good'ol screwdrive & MF lenses.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > The current 166-50/2.8 is qite excellent. I haven't seen any complaints in a > long time. I'm quite sure any initial assembly problems have been resolved. > Paul > > On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:19 PM, Fernando wrote: > >> I've been shooting with a K24/2.8 for a full year, last year. I like >> the 35mm EFV, so I would like a Limited pancake DA24/4. I switched >> back to the DA21 this year because I was tired of guesstimating >> exposures -good exercise nonetheless. >> >> Other than that, the usual: bring back the *200/4 macro and I'll buy >> it even if I need to sell anything, and some fast glass would be nice, >> some 20/2, 30/1.4, or 35/1.4 those can be big, but sharp wide open. A >> mark II of the 16-50/2.8 would be nice as well. >> > The current 166-50/2.8 is qite excellent. I haven't seen any complaints in a > long time. I'm quite sure any initial assembly problems have been resolved. > Paul > >> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I just realized that it's been literally years (two or more) since I >>> bought a pentax lens. The fact is, I have pretty much everything I >>> need - the 50-135 and 60-250 are interesting, but not enough to make >>> my break out my credit card (the FA*80-200/2.8 works fine for me). >>> >>> But one thing I *would* buy in a heartbeat would be a weather-sealed >>> 12-24 (or wider) ultrawide. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >>> www.robertstech.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ >> >> -- >> 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. > -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- 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.

