On 4/17/07, Peter Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
Perhaps drifting a bit off-topic here, but the photographers for the
local newspaper here used Canon equipment when they shot film. They
switched over to Nikon when they switched to digital. They have since
switched back to Canon, in large part because Nikon was no longer
servicing some of the longer lenses the paper owned (in particlular,
the 600 mm).
I can't imagine how much completely switching over cameras and lenses
twice has cost, and who knows if another switch is down the road in a
few years. Then again, that kind of investment is probably a
(relative) drop in the bucket for a news organization of that size.
Pattie
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