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GreyJackal
10-09-2006, 14:53
Discovered today that I can't mount it. I have no idea why, everything looks ok to the naked eye. I can mount other lenses on the camera and I can't get this one on the 300 either, so it's definitely the lens.

Before anyone suggests it, it never left my bag at the paintball yesterday :p Shot everything with the 50mm.

Logic would suggest it's taken a knock somewhere along the line but I don't remember doing that. Given that likely explanation, what's the deal with warranty repairs? (It's less than a year old).
downhillbiker
10-09-2006, 15:01
Don't think it'll fall under warranty if it turns out to have taken a knock, but you probably guessed it anyway.

When you say it won't mount, how far do you get - can you push the lens onto the camera, but not twist it to lock it on, or does it just not engage when you twist it?
GreyJackal
10-09-2006, 15:06
Can push on, turn about 1/4 of the necessary way, then it stops.
Nana
10-09-2006, 15:17
Oh I'm really sorry that's happened, it's a lens I've really admired through your photographs. I hope it turns out to be a minor problem and easily fixable, I hear fixation have a quick turn around if you want ot go that route.
downhillbiker
10-09-2006, 15:54
So do you reckon you've just bent one of the blades on the lens mount then? If so, then a repair shop *may* be able to fix it without replacing any parts - I say may, as aluminium tends to shear when bent around.

Worth getting it looked at under home insurance if the cost of the repair is a lot too...
GreyJackal
10-09-2006, 15:59
I dunno, that's what you'd think given the problem, but they look fine :thinking:
Radiohead
10-09-2006, 16:03
I assume your other lenses mount ok?
downhillbiker
10-09-2006, 16:16
Compare the mount with one of your other bits of L glass and see if there are any differences - could be something's come a little loose and is fouling, but if there are no differences, then I'd check the bodies out.
GreyJackal
10-09-2006, 16:54
Yep, as I said, other lenses fit fine and I can't fit this onto the 300 OR the 1.

I think I've found the problem though

http://static.flickr.com/90/239388381_bd59f1af27.jpg

Unfortunately I don't have a jewellery screwdriver small enough. I'll pop into town tomorrow.
Radiohead
10-09-2006, 17:07
Looks easy enough to fix then - phew
GreyJackal
10-09-2006, 17:16
Yeah, it's not a screw on my other lenses, just a "blob" of metal. Guess it just wiggled loose over time.
sideshowbob
10-09-2006, 17:27
It's a good job it didn't wiggle itself off into your £2k camera ...
emeyedeejay
10-09-2006, 18:03
Maybe it's a blob of metal (or a weld of sorts) on your other lenses as an improvement over the screw that used to wiggle loose!
GreyJackal
10-09-2006, 18:04
Hehe yeah. I don't think it could wiggle loose into the camera Bobby, it'd be in the bayonet mechanism.
downhillbiker
10-09-2006, 18:22
could be something's come a little loose and is fouling

:D
GreyJackal
10-09-2006, 18:49
Smart arse :D
DamienB
10-09-2006, 19:44
This bit occasionally sheers off on other lenses and can end up inside the camera body alright - talked to a chap with a faulty 1D at Canon's Elstree service centre who had had this happen to him. He wasn't too impressed with the quality of the 24-70 in question...
GreyJackal
10-09-2006, 19:46
Good job I've caught it then I guess and didn't try and force the lens on.
GreyJackal
14-09-2006, 16:30
Took me a while to get around to buy a jewellery set, but it is now fixed and mounts smoothly :)
Boink!
14-09-2006, 16:35
Good to hear.
DamienB
14-09-2006, 18:07
Took me a while to get around to buy a jewellery set, but it is now fixed and mounts smoothly :)

Can you attach it to the camera though? :n0rty:
Radiohead
14-09-2006, 18:13
He wrote what we were all thinking.
GreyJackal
14-09-2006, 18:54
To be fair it's the kind of thing I'd come out with if it were someone else's post :D