Last time I wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Antti-Pekka Virjonen > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:10 AM > > I just got a note that my K10D is back from warranty service (just > slightly over 1 week, I'm happy to have the official Pentax > warranty service in my city). I don't know yet if they fixed > anything in the body. The DA* 16-50/2.8 was sent to Pentax Germany > for adjustments. They told me it should take about two weeks. They > also told me they don't need to send these lenses back to the > factory in Japan any longer.
The body was fine in the tests. The lens was sent back to Japan from Germany and the Japan factory finally replaced it with a new one (just after 3 months of wait!!!). I do not think this is a fair amount of time to wait for * series lens service. The new lens is good optically, BUT: they have not assembled the lens correctly so the bayonet mount for the original lens hood is in a wrong angle. I cannot use the hood because it sits with about 30 degrees of rotation to the right (looked from the back of the camera) and blocks some light at wide angles. The third sample of this brilliant lens is coming today or tomorrow. I think they will strongly need to improve final testing and QA. I am a bit hesitant to buy another DA* lens now. Should I sell all my Pentax gear and follow Cotty to the dark side now ;-)? Antti-Pekka ________________________________________ Antti-Pekka Virjonen Computec Oy R&D Turku Fiskarsinkatu 7 D FIN-20750 Turku Finland Puh. +358 20 7908 300 GSM +358 500 789 753 Telefax +358 20 7908 319 Y-tunnus 1974184-5 Kotipaikka Helsinki www.computec.fi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
