[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Hello list,
>
> After 10 months of use, my beloved lens (28-135 USM IS) has died. One
> week ago, when I brought it out of my backpack, I saw the zoom didn�t
> come down 70mm, I can only move the zoom between 70 and 135mm.
>
[...]
> The question is: Anybody has had any problem like this with this lens?
> Do you think is a veri fragile lens?
Hmm, it seems to be at the same level of fragility as the other consumer
zooms, 28-105USM, 100-300USM are the ones I can compare it with. Mine
fell to the floor from about 2 feet last week due to my own dumbness :-(
After that, the focusing ring was jammed. I applied some force and
something seemed to come back to working with a very audible plasticky
sound. Now it works as smooth and well as new again. So I wouldn't tell
it rugged, but it at least seems to have survived the drop.
During the same trip, my 50/1.4 dropped out of my backpack onto concrete
from about 1.5 feet. No damage whatsoever, maybe thanks to the hood I
had attached reversed. Another reason for buying lens hoods for ones
lenses ;-).
Thomas Bantel
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