I told a frequent email friend that my nerves must have switched hands,
because when I type my name as my usual sign-off, Keith, over 80% of the
time now I'll type it Kieth...
I did that because I wanted to assure him that it was ME sending the
note, not some pretender to the throne...
I must
graywolf wrote:
I don't know about you, Anthony, but if I thoroughly edited everything I posted
here the list would have far fewer messages on it.
BTW, what do you call it when your fingers type the wrong word. I do not think
it is not exactly the same thing as dislexia. I noticed that I
[Was: More lens problems]
Intersting. So you have to post in the last few minutes of the 90 days
then, or is any time good after 90 days (who does the 90 affect, the
seller or the buyer)?
Antonio
On 16 May 2004, at 10:41, TMP wrote:
Antonio - it prevents them from being able to retaliate and leave
The solution is simply implemented, but eBay would have to WANT to do it.
Feedback should be blind until both buyer's and seller's have lodged it.
When both feedbacks are in they should be locked in and only then revealed.
It wouldn't stop sociopaths from posting unwarranted bad feedbad, but it
- Original Message -
From: Anthony Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(snip)
Feedback should be blind until both buyer's and seller's have lodged it.
(snip)
Don't yo'u jus't hat'e i't whe'n peopl'e us'e apo'straphe's
inappropriatel'y.
regard's,
Anthon'y F'arr
That's not exactly true. I sold a lens or some such to a fellow in Oz, and
he didn't leave feedback until well after to 90 day period. He didn't tell
me how he did it, but it's there. Maybe he had to go through some eBay
hoops, maybe he had to set the Kozmik Klok back a month or so, but the
On 16/5/04, ANTONIONIO, discombobulated, offered:
Now that eBay is fast becoming a monopoly for online auctions, I would
like to see our governments impose some better regulation of how it
works - to protect both sellers and buyers far better than at present.
In the UK if they would just
- Original Message -
From: graywolf
Subject: Re: Naughty ebay guy [Was: More lens problems]
I think that 90 day thing is only the limit for the form for it to
still be on
your ebay page. I do belive you can actually post feedback
virtually forever. I
do know I responded to one more
There you go, Cotty. Start an online auction service of your own. Private
sellers only. A high level of integrity. Then you only have to figure out how to
attract the buyer's who only know about Ebay.
There are several online auction sites, most of them seem pretty pathetic. And
Ebay, the guys
On 16/5/04, GRAYWOLF, discombobulated, offered:
I think that 90 day thing is only the limit for the form for it to still
be on
your ebay page. I do belive you can actually post feedback virtually
forever. I
do know I responded to one more than a year later.
Thanks Tom, I have some wrong
I am closing open issues :-)
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
Remember the Tamron 90/2.5 that I bought off ebay and turned out to be
a lemon? The seller thinks that fogging of internal elements and an
unresponsive iris are normal for a lens of this age, that it is is
good
Feedback doesn't always mean very much. More than one of the sellers
I've delt with as much as
told me that their feedback would automaticaly match mine. (If I gave
them good feed back that's
what I'd get in return and the converse would be true, generated
automaticaly). Luckly I didn't have
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
Meanwhile, I posted appropriate feedback for the seller. As
per the advice from the list, with a few minutes to spare
from the end of the 90-day period. He did not like it at all
:-) However, people seem to like him.
I didn't look further back than the latest
After speaking with Pentax USA and having no luck cleaning the contacts,
I'm going to send them the *istD body and the FA 50, FA 100 macro, and
the FA 135. Although it seems funny, they still think it might be the
lenses even though they work on the MZ-S and the ZX-7. What really
confused them
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:13:03 -0500, you wrote:
After speaking with Pentax USA and having no luck cleaning the contacts,
I'm going to send them the *istD body and the FA 50, FA 100 macro, and
the FA 135. Although it seems funny, they still think it might be the
lenses even though they work on the
, 2003 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: More lens problems.
I should have took my own advice recently. I sold a piece of gear on
ebay, sent it uninsured because the guy declined to pay for the
insurance, he now says he did not get it, and it looks like I will be
out my gear and having to pay a refund
AFAIK, it was possible to identify MZ-S bodies that are affected by
entering Serial # at the following URL on Pentax Homepage:
http://www.pentax.co.jp/japan/news/information/20010619-s.html
I did try it two years ago when I bought MZ-S. Return info was that
my MZ-S is clear. The unfortunate part
I am not certain. Try to avoid loading the film too further in. If that
doesn't work, it must be checked by service centre.
Yours regards,
Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
Thanks, the MZ-S I'm after (the seller has the flu, deal is delayed) has
been bought in Taiwan. I'll ask about this.
AFAIK, it was possible to identify MZ-S bodies that are affected by
entering Serial # at the following URL on Pentax Homepage:
http://www.pentax.co.jp/japan/news/information/20010619-s.html
I did try it two years ago when I bought MZ-S. Return info was that
my MZ-S is clear. The unfortunate
Some MZ-S purchased in asia had winding problem as well, and those units
were purchased after the MZ-S had been released for 2 years. Some
experienced auto rewind when the film was not finished.
Yours regards,
Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
The only problem reported in the MZ-S was in
- Original Message -
From: Alan Chan
Subject: Re: More lens problems.
Some MZ-S purchased in asia had winding problem as well, and those units
were purchased after the MZ-S had been released for 2 years. Some
experienced auto rewind when the film was not finished.
I find
So Zeiss was right? Well, at least it gave us the K-mount.
--
Robert
- Original Message -
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: More lens problems.
I find it interesting that almost all of the complaints
Some MZ-S purchased in asia had winding problem as well, and those
units were purchased after the MZ-S had been released for 2 years.
Some experienced auto rewind when the film was not finished.
Alan Chan
Thanks, the MZ-S I'm after (the seller has the flu, deal is delayed)
has been bought in
- Original Message -
From: Joseph Tainter
Subject: Re: More lens problems.
Is it just me or does it seem that there are a lot of defective
starkistdees out of the box? We seem to have an unusual number of posts
about problems with a new camera.
I wonder about that myself, though
Message -
WR From: Joseph Tainter
WR Subject: Re: More lens problems.
Is it just me or does it seem that there are a lot of defective
starkistdees out of the box? We seem to have an unusual number of posts
about problems with a new camera.
WR I wonder about that myself, though so far mine
The only problems I've had were remedied by reading the manual. I
sometimes think I don't need to do that. My *istD has worked fine right
out of the box. Having had other DSLR experience has not caused any
problems, either,
Len
* There's no place like 127.0.0.1
I do remember when the MZ-S
Just not long ago many MZ-S had problems too. If you asked me, Pentax must
do something about their QC, but obviousely they didn't.
Yours regards,
Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
Is it just me or does it seem that there are a lot of defective
starkistdees out of the box? We seem to have
- Original Message -
From: Alan Chan
Subject: Re: More lens problems.
Just not long ago many MZ-S had problems too. If you asked me, Pentax must
do something about their QC, but obviousely they didn't.
Personally, I think their QC went to hell sometime around the introducion
And with all my 7 lenses that I have owned now, only 1 has been completely
problem free. I'd say either I am very bad luck, or they have some serious
QC issue. I got a feeling that even Pentax Canada was sick of me (and so am
I).
Yours regards,
Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
- Original Message -
From: Alan Chan
Subject: Re: More lens problems.
And with all my 7 lenses that I have owned now, only 1 has been completely
problem free. I'd say either I am very bad luck, or they have some serious
QC issue. I got a feeling that even Pentax Canada was sick
All the problem I have read so far were related to the winding mechanisms.
Yours regards,
Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
Just not long ago many MZ-S had problems too.
Andre
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Hi folks,
Remember the Tamron 90/2.5 that I bought off ebay and turned out to be
a lemon? The seller thinks that fogging of internal elements and an
unresponsive iris are normal for a lens of this age, that it is is
good working order and that there are risks associated with buying
from ebay (I
This one time, at band camp, Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I have kissed my 60 pounds goodbye, I think that some one with such
an attitude should not be left to deal on ebay. Has anybody ever filed
a complaint against a seller? Is SquareTrade the one and only option?
I have
At 05:18 2003.12.19 -0500, you wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:33:03 + (GMT)
From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi folks,
Remember the Tamron 90/2.5 that I bought off ebay and turned out to be
a lemon? The seller thinks that fogging of internal elements and an
unresponsive iris are
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
As I have kissed my 60 pounds goodbye, I think that some one
with such an attitude should not be left to deal on ebay. Has
anybody ever filed a complaint against a seller? Is
SquareTrade the one and only option?
I've lost a fair bit of faith with eBay as a
Obviously this is going to be a bad day The *ist D is not working with
a few lenses. In particular:
can't read aperature or AF w/
FA 50, FA 135, FA100 2.8 macro
Works just fine w/
FA20-35, A50.17, Sigma 24-70 3.5-5.6
I'm assuming this body has just won a trip to Colorado.
Steven Desjardins
Steve,
Do you have another ZX type body to try them on? I found that my FA
80-320 acted like it was not set to 'A' when I put it on the *istD.
After putting it on the ZX-10 it behaved just the same. Pointing to a
problem with the lens, not the body. After pressing and hold on the
aperture ring
I'm going to bring in my zx-7 for testing, although I know the FA 50
works fine on my MZ-S. I have cleaned the contacted, made sure they're
on A etc. What's so odd is that three lenses now fail and that AF won't
engage. OTOH, I have an FA, A and Sigma lens that work fine, both
aperture and AF
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, mike wilson wrote:
300/2.8 lurking around the corner for pence. It does sound like another
case of fungus to me, I'm afraid, although it is also possible that it
is an artefact from a previous clean. Professional help needed.
Thanks for all the answers. It is ana
Hi,
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
the sad tale of a dead lens.
Go to your nearest Jessops and ask them to search their secondhand
database for the same lens. Then ask them to get some of the results
sent to your store. You could ask them to search for PK(A) mounts,
too. Choose the one(s) you
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, mike wilson wrote:
too. Choose the one(s) you want. Don't pay more than £120. Probably
not a good idea to do this on a Saturday
Thanks for this. 120 is twice as much as I paid for the one I have
(OK,plus PP). Are you suggesting that I should shut up, cough up the
35
It is online as well.
http://www.jessops.com/used/
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:26, mike wilson wrote:
Hi,
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
the sad tale of a dead lens.
Go to your nearest Jessops and ask them to search their secondhand
database for the same lens. Then ask them to get some
Hi,
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, mike wilson wrote:
too. Choose the one(s) you want. Don't pay more than £120. Probably
not a good idea to do this on a Saturday
Thanks for this. 120 is twice as much as I paid for the one I have
(OK,plus PP). Are you
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, mike wilson wrote:
£60 was way too cheap for a good example of that lens.
Well, that was ebay. Nobody else bidding on it knew it was a bad 'un.
You could offer
the guy £10 for the extension tube and the hood, as it is unlikely that
you will find many others.
Err, my
Just out of curiosity, do you think it could be a crack in one of the inner
elements? Another thought is that it could be something that should be
against the side of the barrel, but has come loose. I have only watched
lens repair, so I am not an expert, just thinking out loud, so to speak.
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, David Madsen wrote:
Just out of curiosity, do you think it could be a crack in one of the inner
elements?
Yes, I fear this could be the case.
Another thought is that it could be something that should be
against the side of the barrel, but has come loose. I have only
That's a tough one. If it's a hair it's removable. A crack is not. Too
bad it will probably cost money to find out for sure. Good luck.
David Madsen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.davidmadsen.com
: RE: More lens problems
That's a tough one. If it's a hair it's removable. A crack is not. Too
bad it will probably cost money to find out for sure. Good luck.
David Madsen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.davidmadsen.com
Hi,
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, David Madsen wrote:
Just out of curiosity, do you think it could be a crack in one of the inner
elements?
Yes, I fear this could be the case.
I would expect a crack to have less of a line appearance, especially if
you move the lens
Just after deciding to return the Kiron, I received today a Tamron
90/2.5. Looking through it front to back I see a thin, probably
straight line like a chord running across the barel (perhaps across
an element in the middle of the lens). What is it?
Bring on the bad news,
Kostas
Hi,
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
Just after deciding to return the Kiron, I received today a Tamron
90/2.5. Looking through it front to back I see a thin, probably
straight line like a chord running across the barel (perhaps across
an element in the middle of the lens). What is it?
Can't
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