On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:25 PM, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Maas" > Subject: Re: K10D Back from Pentax Repair > > >> Manufacturing defect, yes, early samples, no. I'm seeing reports of >> recent lenses with the same issue over on the flickr Pentax group I >> moderate. > > I don't think there is any way of knowing when a lens was manufactured based > on the selling > date. Serial number assignements seem to be fairly random, except for the > Limited lenses. > > William Robb >
It's a pretty safe guess that anything in stores today is not going to be early production, given the difficulty Pentax had in filling demand for the first few months that the lens was out. Especially if its coming from a higher-volume source like B&H. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.