On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Jeffery Johnson wrote: > Today while at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum I was using the SMC > Pentax FA 28-80 3.5-5.6 and something odd was happening. I would be at 28mm > it would not focus at a distance but when I would move it more toward the > 80mm mark it would then focus. I am not sure if something is going wrong > with the lens or what the deal was with it today. Anything close up it would > be okay at 28mm but when focusing several feet or more away it wouldn't > focus correctly.
Do you have another wide lens to try it with, to see whether it's the lens or the body? My K10D has this exact same fault, it can't lock on distant subjects with a lens any wider than about 28mm. At the moment I don't have the budget to send it away for repair, nor do I have a spare body, so I just put up with it. It doesn't really seem to get in the way at all. Dave -- 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.
