Yup, got in contact with him. Much more reasonable than Precision. I should have sent it to him to begin with. He says its probably the AF block.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks so much P.J. I'll give him a shout and see what he might be > able to do. I would hate to sell and rebuy the lens, as I would have > to sell at a good discount with this issue. And I love the lens. > > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:08 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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 >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- 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.
