On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 07:06:56AM -0500, David J Brooks wrote: > I dropped my k5 and sigma 17-70, about two feet, onto some hard pack > snow today at snowgolf. Lens took the hit at 45 degrees and the mount > stayed on the camera while the lens came off the mount and landed in > some snow. Fixable ? or am I buying a new one
Almost 15 years ago I did something similar; I slipped while climbing down from a photo tower and knocked most of my nearly new MZ-S off the back of the 250-600. In my case I pulled the mount away from the body, not from the lens, but any time you smack a precision instrument hard enough to do that kind of damage it's a concern. In my case the repair bill came in a little under the $500 deductible on my all-risks insurance policy, which was significantly less than the cost of replacing the MZ-S (the lens came out unscathed, once I'd removed the remains of the attached body mount). The repaired MZ-S continued to work flawlessly as my primary camera until I got a *ist-D. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
