Saw a couple examples of the 70-210 F for sale @KEH- reasonable IMO.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Another tail of woe...
>
>Now this is downright painful, yesterday I'm taking the lens hood off 
>the F 70-210mm and it's a bit stiff unscrewing, (I'm using a hood from a 
>Super Takumar 150mm f4.0, works perfectly with the 70-210mm on the 
>K20D), and it's a bit stiff coming off, I must have bunged up the 
>threads.  Funny I didn't notice it being stiff going on.  Well I had to 
>apply a little bit of force and as it begins to unscrew I hear a pop...  
>Now the moving/focusing elements of the lens are unmoored from the 
>focusing helical, and worse the entire front housing be partially 
>removed from the lens barrel exposing part of the focusing helical.  So 
>life hoovers, yet it gets even better! The backup/redundant Vivitar S1 
>is off for repair because it's stopdown lever is binding.  It seems that 
>all of my equipment is broken.
>
>-- 
>There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive 
>failure, and those that will.



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