I cannot believe such bad luck. I can easily see why you'd give up on them. Now I'm afraid to inspect my lenses that closely and worried about the new FA 20-35mm f/4 AL that is on it's way. Pardon my french Alan but I'd go and tear a Pentax a new a*****e over this. FA*......bad
Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:28 AM Subject: Re: FA*200/2.8 matter again... > Hi Rob, > > There is some dust inside this 200mm, so to the 1st one I returned. However, > what concerns me is the scratches present behind the 1st element (on 2nd or > 3rd I think). There are many of them in all different directions actually, > not circular. It definitely looks like cleaned by hand. When the light was > pointed from different angle, cleaning marks were revealed too (but totally > invisible if if the light was point directly). This is my only brand new > lens with so many scratches and cleaning marks. My 2ndhand F*300/4.5 has > cleaning marks too, but not scratch. My brand new FA100/2.8 has 1 hairline > scratch inside, but this 200 has a lot. All my other Pentax lenses are fine > even after years of use. Since this is the 4th lens that I have tried > recently (and all 4 are faulty), I think I am ready to give up and ask for a > full refund. I have known there are qc problem with Pentax products for > years, but I have never expected to be so unlucky. Looks like I won't be > buying any Pentax lenses in the near future. :( > > regards, > Alan Chan > > >I shone a halide desk-lamp through mine both ways, I'm now a little blind I > >think however I did spy with my working eye heaps of dust boulders and one > >small hair (which looked like a fungus filament but wasn't). However when I > >view it under normal light it looks fine (and so do the images that it > >makes on > >film). > > > >I don't believe that many photo enthusiast spec lenses are delivered > >completely > >free from dust even factory fresh (my new APO Leica lenses weren't) however > >finger prints and wipe marks shouldn't be tolerated. > > > >Are all your other lenses much cleaner than this 200? > > > >Cheers, > > > >Rob Studdert > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail >
