Yes, positively little to no protection to be had from the double layer of cardboard plus nylon pouch that my lenses all came in, couldn't agree more. The box of the replacement DA* 16-50 collected personally from Pentax Hamburg showed signs of having gotten wet over half the surface area of the top lid. Wouldn't know what that would be consistent with, probably a case for transport forensics. But I really never thought of it that way; you sure have a point, Graydon Cheers Ecke
> On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:44 , Graydon wrote: >> Which is not to say that the factory QC might not need work; it always >> will. But the kinds of errors people report are the kinds of things >> that go with "that got rattled" -- stuck autofocus, SDM motor won't >> engage, some lens element is out of alignment, the camera turns on but >> one specific function is borked -- and all of those are consistent with >> "container shipping is kinda brutal" combined with "Pentax uses really >> traditional packaging, from the days where someone was going to pick up >> a smallish crate by hand". -- 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.
