Yeah the subject made me think the same thing. Maybe you could go over and visit your lens while it is in the hospital.
-- Bruce Sent from my iPad On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 17, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorrry to hear - but I thought at first you had a nice travel job and were >> going there yourself ! > > I wish. I've never been there but hope to make it some day. Perhaps I should > have escorted the lens? It's probably going to cost almost as much anyway:-). > > Paul >> >> ann >> >> On 9/17/2013 16:00, Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> As I mentioned a while back, I fell while shooting the Woodward Dream >>> Cruise this year. I managed to hold my K-5 and DA* 60-250 aloft, and they >>> weren't damaged. But my DA* 16-50 was in a lens case hanging from my >>> shoulder. It must have hit the ground, but it looked okay upon inspection. >>> However, when I used it I ended up with a number of soft pics. Checking it >>> on a brick wall, I found the focus plane was uneven. So I sent it to CRIS. >>> They tell me it needs a new front element group and they don't have the >>> tool to do the job, so they're shipping it to Japan. Don't know what it >>> will cost yet, but there's an upfront $60 estimate fee for this one. They >>> said it usually takes six to eight weeks to get a repair from Pentax in >>> Japan. Hope it doesn't go any longer than that. >>> >>> Paul >>> >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
