HEEEELLLPPP !!!

tigerminx

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6 Mar 2007 - 6:44 PM

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I reached into my camera bag to check a serial number of my 50mm lens, and clumsily dropped it to the floor. It only fell a couple of feet. So I quickly attached it to my Camera and low and behold it won't focus. Even in manual mode. If i take it off the camera and try adjusting the focus ring it just slides round and round. Please tell me I haven't cooked it !!!

Thanks in advance.
Bruce.

KenTaylor (e2 Member)

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6 Mar 2007 - 6:50 PM

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Insurance springs to mind.
Ken

tigerminx

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6 Mar 2007 - 6:53 PM

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Oh dear... Certainly not the answers I was hoping to read. Nothing a Canon repair centre can look at?

tigerminx

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6 Mar 2007 - 7:01 PM

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Thanks Keith, that sounds reassuring. I suppose I can only check with Canon themselves.

tigerminx

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6 Mar 2007 - 7:39 PM

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Thanks Steve, had a look at the site but couldn't find any info on my particular problem. I will contact Canon tomorrow and see what the damage will be. Just can't get over how easily it was damaged. Read a couple of forums about the design fault of the lens on the internet. Suppose lenses aren't made for dropping are they !!!

Bruce.

Mark_Readman

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6 Mar 2007 - 8:31 PM

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I had the same problem on a 50mm mki, it was dropped and the focus ring spun, several weeks later it fell from the top shelf on to concrete, out of shear curiosity I put it on a body and was amazed to see it working again as if nothing had happened other than a dent on the filter ring !
Thats Luck !!

andytvcams

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6 Mar 2007 - 8:36 PM

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Try putting it back in auto focus and manual adjust the focus ring.

Let me know if anything what happens?.

tigerminx

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7 Mar 2007 - 9:01 AM

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Hi Andy. Tried doing that. Still no movement. After turning the focusing ring for quite a while I eventually got some movement !!!

Bruce.