2010/1/13 Christine Aguila <cagu...@earthlink.net>: > > Ecke--is this for just the 16-50? Or is this advice for the 50-135mm as > well? Cheers, Christine
Hi Christine, my understanding from my readings of failure stats published in the internet and the few official figures given locally by Pentax country offices / importers / first line distributors indicate return rates of roughly 1% for the 16-50 and half that for the the 50-135 which both sold in huge numbers explaining the number of complaints that surface on the web and thus the high profile of the issue. Some people are suggesting there will be SDM only G2 versions of both lenses in the not too distant future (not sure of those rumors myself) and that they are selling their lenses to wait for the revised version. I have no idea if that is true and I haven't a care in the world to lose any sleep over the issue until my new lens fails again or Pentax where it goes next week fails to adjust focal plane and lens alignment (lots of purple fringing and center to edge softness). Cheers Ecke -- 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.
