Bummer. Paul, I most certainly join you in your wishes to have your lens repaired quickly and professionally.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > The SDM motor of my workhorse lens seems to have failed after what must be > about 20,000 frames. Not too bad, although I guess it shouldn't ever fail on > an expensive lens that is marketed as a premium product. A few weeks back I > started getting intermittent focus failures. Unmounting the lens and turning > the focus barrel manually would wake it up again. I had a couple assignments, > so I held onto it, figuring I'd send it out when the weather started to get > bad. But at yesterday's shoot it failed completely. Couldn't get a shot off. > That was inconvenient as hell, since I didn't have another lens between 135 > and 400, and the Mopar Action editor likes the look I get in the 200 to 250 > range. But I made do with the 50-135 and the A 400. That 400 is getting > harder to focus as my eyes age, so I shot numerous frames of each shot, > refocusing after every couple. Should have hung onto the DA 50-200 as a > spare, but I sold it to help cover the cost of the DA* lens. > > In any case, I hope C.R.I.S. has the part. Don't want to go through the kind > of ordeal that accompanied my K-5 repair in July. > > Paul > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
