Don't feel bad about Pentax, apparently, Canon, Nikon, and Sony have all
outsourced their repair services to Precision. Which only confirms that
life is like a septic system, the really big pieces float to the top.
After warranty repair just seems to be a very low priority. Those units
that fail in warranty get replaced if the monkey's with hammers that
pass for craftsmen these days fail to repair them, or screw them up
more, and if they're out of warranty, well /you'll/ /just/ /have/ /to/
/pony/ /up/ /and/ /buy/ /a/ /new/ /unit,/ seems to be the common
operating model.
On 12/5/2018 2:34 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
The good news is that my 15-30 does seem to focus. I haven't done any
real photography with it yet, but I've put it on my K-1 a couple of
times and it seems to be working. Yay.
This afternoon I put my 16-50 on my K-3 for a friend to use, and it
wouldn't focus. Even worse, it wouldn't manually focus, either. With
a bit of fiddling it would intermittently focus.
This evening I did some checking and it works just fine on the K-1 and
the K-3 II, it just doesn't work reliably on the K-3. Huh? It almost
seems as if the screw drive is intermittently stuck in an engaged mode.
Meanwhile, my K-1 has developed a sticky lens release button. I'll
push it in to release a lens, and it won't always pop back out to
secure the lens in place. It seems like it just needs some cleaning
or lube, but I'm not at all inclined to send it to precision. If
there were an approved lubricant for it, I'd apply it myself.
I'm just not happy with Pentax reliability, weather sealing, or repair
services these days.
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