Thanks so much P.J. I'll give him a shout and see what he might be able to do. I would hate to sell and rebuy the lens, as I would have to sell at a good discount with this issue. And I love the lens.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:08 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > It might not be Precision's fault, it could simply be a delayed effect of > being dropped. I doubt they opened up the lens to see if anything else was > wrong inside if they didn't have to. > > Try Eric Hendrickson at pentaxs.com. I'm pretty hard on my equipment, and > he was able to bring both an A 24mm f2.8 which suffered a much more severe > drop than you describe and a 43mm limited that a couple of years after a > minor, for me at least, drop simply jammed at the same time started falling > apart, not to mention the Vivitar Series 1 70-210 he adjusted for me pretty > much as a favor since he doesn't usually work on them. His prices are very > reasonable, and I doubt that he'll charge anything like Precision's rate. > > > > On 2/1/2017 2:42 PM, Gonz wrote: >> >> I dropped my camera from a couple of feet with my 31mm1.8Ltd on it a >> couple of years back. (ugh). It bent the petal in the front enough to >> show up in my K-5's pics as a slight darkening. So I sent it off to >> precision camera and they "fixed" it, but now its exhibiting something >> else. Sometimes it will not autofocus past about 5ft or so (aprox), >> and if I try to do it manually, it has what feels like something >> stopping it going past that point. But if you move the lens around, >> usually vertically, you can hear something loose in there and then it >> "fixes" itself. How hard is it to take one of these apart and take >> care of whatever is rattling in there? I don't want to send it back >> to precision as its a $300 round trip or so, and they won't answer my >> emails about taking care of this since I suspect this has been there >> all along since the last repair, but I never noticed it because I >> don't use this lens enough. >> >> --Gonz >> > > > -- > 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. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- 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.
