Bulent, my 50-135 had its motor replaced just within the 2-year warranty (by 3 weeks!). But after the replacement warranty ended the motor died again. So it sat ...
But I've been shooting with it again, purely manual focus, and it's clear to me I had forgotten just what a great optic it is. It's a simply outstanding portrait lens. So I plan to haul it down to Pentax once again ... On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Bulent Celasun <[email protected]> wrote: > Christine, > > My DA* 50-135mm had a faulty motor (the poorly > designed/produced-implemented one). > It was replaced; a few months after the warranty period; paid. > Then, the poor lens (metaphorically, I mean!) hit the concrete and the > motor died again at that moment. > The guy at our Pentax service told me that they were happy with the "new" > motor. > Apparently none of them failed (in contrast to the "originals"). > And, you are right in expecting; they had the motor(s) in their stock. > My lens still sits somewhere home to be repaired; I have no idea about > its whereabouts :( > > Hope yours serves you well from now on... > > Bulent > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://patoloji.gen.tr > http://celasun.wordpress.com/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ > http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
