>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. >In brought it to the shop and they said that it looked like the zoom >was broken after a fall or similar. Like I said, the zoom was inside a >backpack, and there were not any marks of it outside the lens. I had a similar problem with a 28-70 lense. I'm always careful with my lenses and couldn't understand how my lense could have possibly become damaged. The lense wouldn't zoom or focus because one of the internal elements had become dislodged. I got my lense replaced (11 months into my 12 months warrantee) by the shop I bought it from (no mail order for me - it's not so much fun to complain by e-mail). The guy in the shop said that it's possible that the damage was caused by vibration (i.e. air travel, or prolonged periods in a car - neither of which happened). I'm guessing that this particular lense was manufactured with a single week component, my replacement lense has been fine for the last 3 years (touch wood). On the subject of the EOS 30e, I've handled one of these, read all the reviews, all that I have to do now, is somehow steal the money from the babies university fund ( He may not get a good education, but at least he'll have som good photo's of himself as a baby :) ******************************************************************************* Important. This E-mail is intended for the above named person and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If this has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please inform the sender immediately. ******************************************************************************* * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
