....got stuck and refused to focus. Never did like the build quality of it but optically it was good. Made a phone call to "The Camera Store" in Calgary and drove in this morning for an over the counter exchange. I have had the lens for nine month, so that was pretty good service I think.
The new lens, while still not as solid and smooth as my old Pentax lenses feels a lot better than the departed one and focuses , for lack of a better word "snappier". The serial # of the new one is way higher than the old one and the package had the announcement of the name change to Hoya in it so it is probably of late manufacture.
Anyway I went outside for half an hour and tried it out, seems to work OK.
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