On 17 Apr 2007 at 10:18, Peter Hancock wrote:
> Malcolm wrote:
> > I put my 300 f2.8L in for service recently and I was told that it was
> too
> > old to be serviced.
>
> Whoa! You own what is pretty much THE signature lens from the company
> that has pretensions to being number 1 in the world and they can't
> service it?!! How old is it? If I owned a lens like that I'd expect it
> to last pretty much my photographic lifetime. Are they assuming they're
> selling to professionals who write them down after a few years? How
> long, does anyone know?
I am pretty sure the problem is 99% in the electronics department,
only 1% mechanics glass.
Problem is identical to youngtimer vehicles, especially the high-
end/short-production runs, and dedicated electronics....they wear
out, even by time itself, and many car-manufacturers have even
outsourced crucial components, or the deparment responsible was
merged/split/sold-off/etc, all knowledge gone....what is left is a
black box that nobody could even reverse-engineer....
NASA had similar problems with their 80-era SpaceShuttle....they
needed 8080-chips of that same era to keep them functional....but
nobody makes them anymore.
Oldtimer magazines have already predicted that cars build after 1985-
1990 will never see the road in operational condition again, after a
decade or 2-3, cursed to a non-functional standstill.
And later generations will have insult added to injury, with DOT-
tests requiring that ABS/airbags/ESP/etc must be legally
functional....defacto a total-loss declaration before they even
become oldtimer in the first place.
So hang on to your non-electronics oldtimer, it's the last generation
that will actually drive on the road.
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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