----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Lin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 2:06 AM Subject: RE: EOS Expensive Heritage Day out!
> > A few hours later as I started to remove my Sigma 17-35 EX HSM > > from the 10D, it dropped about 1m to the pavement, landing on its > > lens mount where there's barely a mark, but it no longer focuses and > > has clearly suffered severe internal damage. > > Ouch $$ > It would be interesting to see just how much the repair estimate for your > Sigma lens is. Hi, I took the lens in to Sigma UK last Thursday, and have just had a repair estimate from them for 75 GBP. Before taking the lens in for repair and conscious that the 17-35 was reputed to suffer from a softness on the RHS, I did some tests to decide whether it was worth even this reasonable expenditure. The softness is clearly apparent when images are viewed at 100%, and I've posted a height reduced, full width crop on my website (item 13, if you're interested). However, I can't see any evidence of softness when I've printed to A4 and whilst I can print to A3, I don't do it very often. So I'll go ahead with the repair and save the purchase of a Sigma 15-30 (somewhat too large, I feel) or EF 17-40L (about 8x the repair cost) to a later day! I would like an excuse for an L zoom though! So far, all my Ls are primes. (Canon are charging me 70GBP to fix the duff aperture motor on my carry-about EF80-200 f4.5-5.6 II which failed earlier the same day.) Malcolm Milton Keynes, UK www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
