Hi! On 3/19/07, Pattie Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, all, for your feedback. Unfortunately, the price on the lens was apparently because of the stiff zoom, so the seller wasn't willing to go lower, and I didn't think the price justified a repair at my expense. So I am sending it back.
Good decision. One afternoon couple of years ago, I ever so slightly banged my 100-400 (I dropped my camerabag a little and it was inside there). I started shooting with it and gradually during the day it got very stiff. At the end I alread had some scratchs showing on the barrel from trying to go on with zooming. I was out on a racing track and I thought it was sand and had to be cleaned. Well, turned out that it was not sand, but something had broken and all the very tiny ball bearings from inside had gone to wrong places. Very expensive repair as the other half of the barrel was replaced with all the mechanics from the zooming ring. I have some pictures somewhere I could show... Anyways, stiff zoom action on 100-400 somehow sounds too familiar. If it was the same as I had, it would have quickly gotten stuck and you would have been left with expensive repairs. -- HG. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
