RE: FA135 service story and advice needed

2012-11-08 Thread Krisjanis Linkevics
I think it may be worth your while to contact someone from US of A as the idea that FA 135 cannot be fixed for the problem you're having sounds very strange to me. Boris Liberman My desire was to get real Pentax repair people to tackle the problem as they might have access to

Re: FA135 service story and advice needed

2012-11-08 Thread Paul Sorenson
If you don't mind sending it to the US you could check out Eric Hendrickson. He was a long time repairman for Pentax and now works on his own. You can contact him through his web site. http://pentaxs.com/ -p Sent from my iPad On Nov 8, 2012, at 4:36 AM, Krisjanis Linkevics

RE: FA135 service story and advice needed

2012-11-08 Thread Krisjanis Linkevics
If you don't mind sending it to the US you could check out Eric Hendrickson. He was a long time repairman for Pentax and now works on his own. You can contact him through his web site. http://pentaxs.com/ -p Thanks for the suggestion, I will think about it. Customs would be my biggest

RE: FA135 service story and advice needed

2012-11-08 Thread J.C. O'Connell
, November 08, 2012 10:03 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: RE: FA135 service story and advice needed If you don't mind sending it to the US you could check out Eric Hendrickson. He was a long time repairman for Pentax and now works on his own. You can contact him through his web site. http

FA135 service story and advice needed

2012-11-07 Thread Krisjanis Linkevics
Some of you might remember my FA135 that a moth took hostage. Long story short there is a dead moth right behind the back element. If nothing else, it is messing with focusing, so I would very much like to get rid of its carcas and debris. So half a year ago I went to my local Pentax dealer

Re: FA135 service story and advice needed

2012-11-07 Thread Miserere
I've never held this lens before, but rear elements are generally the easiest to remove; I've removed quite a few in order to get to oily aperture blades. I'd REALLY like to see a photo of the dead moth! :-) Cheers, —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com

RE: FA135 service story and advice needed

2012-11-07 Thread Krisjanis Linkevics
I've never held this lens before, but rear elements are generally the easiest to remove; I've removed quite a few in order to get to oily aperture blades. I'd REALLY like to see a photo of the dead moth! :-) Cheers, —M. Unfortunately it sounds a lot better than it looks. Just some

Re: FA135 service story and advice needed

2012-11-07 Thread Boris Liberman
I think it may be worth your while to contact someone from US of A as the idea that FA 135 cannot be fixed for the problem you're having sounds very strange to me. On 11/7/2012 4:54 PM, Krisjanis Linkevics wrote: Some of you might remember my FA135 that a moth took hostage. Long story short