Mark, The body is fine. There's a lot of fore-and-aft play in the inner barrel. Eric of pentaxs.com says it cannot be repaired economically. Sigh.
Considering my alternatives... Gonz, Still coming across knob-and-tube wiring in our 1876 house from time to time, including during our recent renovations. Also came across the gas line that used to feed the ceiling lights on the first (ground) floor. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, knob and tube wiring! Yikes, seriously old stuff! > > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Rick - >> >> Does the lens do this on multiple bodies? You might want to verify that it >> is the lens and not the camera. My venerable Pz-1p developed the same >> problem with some lenses. It appears that the shaft from the body is not >> linking up to the lens right. It's only a couple of lenses and they work >> well on other bodies, but consistently falter on the Pz-1p (though like in >> your case, re-mounting the lens or shaking it gets things working again, for >> a while.) >> >> Good luck with the home renovations - we replaced all of our galvanized >> plumbing and Knob and tube wiring last year. Lots of dust, noise and >> disruption. >> >> Mark >> >> >> On 4/22/2017 11:27 AM, Rick Womer wrote: >>> >>> Work and house renovation complications have had me insanely busy for >>> the last few months, and the completely f#@ked up re-do of photo.net >>> has inhibited my photo posting. >>> >>> So here I am to draw on the group's collective experience: >>> >>> My beloved DA 16-45 is having autofocus problems. It often just goes >>> click-click-click and doesn't focus. Sometimes a bit of shaking gets >>> it working again for a frame or three. >>> >>> Where should I send it for repair? Precision? KEH? Somewhere else? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -- Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding > it still. Dorothea Lange > > -- > 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.
