06-27-2024 12:52 PM - last edited on 06-27-2024 12:55 PM by Danny
06-27-2024 02:05 PM
Greetings,
This is one of the sad stories none of us like hear, but we all know accidents happen. 🙁
Since Canon no longer services this lens, I would suggest doing a google search for Canon lens repair with your ZipCode. You may find a local repair shop who can still service your lens.
If you strike out there, or find that the cost to repair exceeds replacement, you can look at sites like Canon Refurbished, KEH, LensRental, B&H or Adorama. They have great used departments.
With these suggestions, also comes some advice. Its a good idea to use a secondary form of retention when your camera is out of its bag. Wrist strap, aux cable to secondary retention point. We all fumble and tripods can fail. QR arca mount, screw type mount, whatever. I even use a wrist strap when my camera is mounted via an arca lens plate to my tripod. Its takes 2 sec to slip on off, but only 1 sec for your camera and lens to take a bad spill. 😉
Hope things work out.
~Rick
Bay Area - CA
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06-27-2024 03:29 PM
Thank you so much for your reply and taking the time to do it! I will follow your advice to search something local.
06-28-2024 09:03 AM
Murphy's Law prevails again. Before I attach my T7 to a tripod, I wrap the strap around the tripod JIC.
06-28-2024 10:28 AM
Give phototronic.biz in Topeka, KS (its close to me I don't know your area) a call (785) 233-0231.
Always know used values before you even try to get service which may or may not be available. Plus at this point a replacement with new or upgrade may be reasonable. The problem is even though the lens may look OK and seem to work OK there isn't a good way to see any internal damage like misalignment, broken contacts, lose solder connections, etc., which will show up at the worse possible time.
06-28-2024 10:31 AM
BTW, one of the reasons Canon stops servicing a product is they do not have parts. This is a big problem for any private repair shop too. If they can not get parts they will not be able to repair it either.
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