Thanks a lot to all who responded (wow, there were many responses, - and many people who dealt with the failed SDM!). I didn't have a chance to clean the contacts and re-check the mount yet. I'll report back when I have updates on the issue.
Igor > Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:57:04 -0500 (EST) > From: Igor Roshchin > > > > I have a question for those people who had SDM (or in general, lens > chip) failed and replaced. > > I see that with one of the SDM lenses my K5 has the aperture and speed > settings rapidly (as in crazily) fluctuating. (And the focus shows "MF", > regardless of the focus selector position.) > I was wondering if this is one of the symptoms of the failed chip or > that could be for a different reason. > > When I had a previous chip failure, I didn't see anything like this. > When the chip failed in your lens, did you see this type of a > fluctuation? > I wonder if could be something else that happened to the lens. > > Igor > -- 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.
