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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
03-07-2008, 10:33 PM
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I'm in the same situation. Event chain as follows:
1. My copy was very bad when I bought it. Returned it to Pentax for service due to focus and sharpening issues. Took 6 weeks and they fixed foucus as they claimed. When returned it was still not sharp as I expected it to be for a 1000$ lens. Further is was nor moving smooth when zooming. It was a sort of stop (didnt slide well) around 28-32 mm.
I took help from my buddy and his frinds (who are a prof. press photographer at a major newspaper) and they thought that the lens sucked when looking at sharpness from 2.8-5.6.
We did some testing and suddenly it stuck and looked itself at 32mm. A ratteling noice was heard inside the lens as of something had come loose.
2. Went back to Pentax once more and they send it away again for service oonce more. Now it's been away for 9 weeks. Now they claim that I've broken it myself!!!
Personally after reading tons of informations about DA* 16-50 it seems that Pentax has a serious quality issue with this lens.
I will speak to Pentax on monday and see what they say. If there is no solution to this it's bye bye Pentax for me. (Buying used Canon gear from my friend).
It's said due to that I like the camera but I can't stand bad service and when companies don't take care of thier bad product quality.
If they don't fix this I think Pentax as a brand will be gone again in some years.
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