It might not be Precision's fault, it could simply be a delayed effect
of being dropped. I doubt they opened up the lens to see if anything
else was wrong inside if they didn't have to.
Try Eric Hendrickson at pentaxs.com. I'm pretty hard on my equipment,
and he was able to bring both an A 24mm f2.8 which suffered a much more
severe drop than you describe and a 43mm limited that a couple of years
after a minor, for me at least, drop simply jammed at the same time
started falling apart, not to mention the Vivitar Series 1 70-210 he
adjusted for me pretty much as a favor since he doesn't usually work on
them. His prices are very reasonable, and I doubt that he'll charge
anything like Precision's rate.
On 2/1/2017 2:42 PM, Gonz wrote:
I dropped my camera from a couple of feet with my 31mm1.8Ltd on it a
couple of years back. (ugh). It bent the petal in the front enough to
show up in my K-5's pics as a slight darkening. So I sent it off to
precision camera and they "fixed" it, but now its exhibiting something
else. Sometimes it will not autofocus past about 5ft or so (aprox),
and if I try to do it manually, it has what feels like something
stopping it going past that point. But if you move the lens around,
usually vertically, you can hear something loose in there and then it
"fixes" itself. How hard is it to take one of these apart and take
care of whatever is rattling in there? I don't want to send it back
to precision as its a $300 round trip or so, and they won't answer my
emails about taking care of this since I suspect this has been there
all along since the last repair, but I never noticed it because I
don't use this lens enough.
--Gonz
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