P. J. Alling wrote: > >The end user is the final QC. That's true of every manufacture these >days. Read the Canon and Nikon Fora if you think their QC is any better.
What struck me was that all three samples tested by DPReview had problems. Also, Andy Westlake, the DPReviewer, stated that DPReview has not seen problems of this kind in the 50mm Canon or Nikon lens that they have tested. Here's his post: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=32551606 Here's the key quote from the end of the post: "Over the past few years I've looked in some detail at a lot of lenses from all manufacturers. From Pentax we've had a disproportionate number of bad samples - most notably 16-50s and 17-70s - and they really need to sort out their QC. This is a pity, because their lineup for APS-C is (as I've said before) the most coherent of any manufacturer, especially with those lovely Limited primes. " --Mark -- 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.
