On 10/6/2010 8:02 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
Boris, the lenses will be two years old next month. If I can get them to work with a little manual manipulation, which is free, why would I send them to CRIS to a couple of hundred apiece to have the parts replaced? Especially so in that I don't use them or any of my equipment for monitory gain. I cannot afford to fix what Pentax wrought on my fixed retiree's income.
Joe, I am not going to /argue/ with you here. It is your call to make. If I were you, I'd be contacting Pentax Israel (well, if I were you living here ;-) ).
Disappointed? Yes. Able to do anything about it? No! I'm not going to bug Ned Bunnell in an attempt to get a free fix unless the lens fails me again at the park this afternoon and I can't get it going once more.
No need to bug Ned, especially, if I were you, I wouldn't know local Ned's equivalent anyway ;-).
<Later> The lens behaved itself this afternoon, with the exception that I don't think it's a very sharp lens, and that I could focus it better manually than with AF on. (only one sample, so not certain).
From what I gathered reading forumae (I'd use my form here ;-) ) including mail list/i/ ;-) such as this one, the SDM failure is often gradual. It starts to act up and then it behaves but eventually it just breaks down leaving you with manual focus lens. Don't trust me on this one, as I am playing the broken phone here. But if I am not confusing things, then you might be wrong thinking that it will work after you "play" with it some.
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