85 mm 1.2 Broken!!

Ed Hamilton wrote in post #2031123
Send it to Canon anyway....OR SEND IT TO ME! PM ME! PLEASE!!!!

ED! I was going to say that too!

I'm very suspicious of that high of a repair cost (although I suppose I have no reason to be). There are so many instances where expensive lens have suffered significant damage and been repaired, granted in the U.S., by Canon itself for a few hundred dollars -- sums ranging between 15-30% of the lens cost.

I wouldn't give up all hope quite yet.

A very big ouch... Just send it in to Canon and get a "real" estimate.

That lens was just available used on B&H for 1399.

New, it sold for 1500 U.S.

How can it cost more to fix than to buy new?

I guess it's the old saying, the sum of its parts is greater than the whole. That's why they steal cars and chop 'em up. The parts are worth more than the entire car.

I feel your pain. I dropped my camera a long time ago. It cost $560 to fix.

mark

I broke the manual focus on my 100-400 (and they replaced a craked plate) and it ran me only $350 (or about 30% of the cost of the lens) most of which was labor.

I broke my 28-135 IS lens out of adjustment and that ran about $150 or again about 30% of the cost.

finally I broke my 28-70/2.8L (broke thread holes and they had to replace a plate that holds the lens together) and that cost about $250 to fix (again mostly labor)

So always between 25-30% of the cost of the lens to repair out of warranty. I can't see it costing more then the cost new to repair unless they can't get parts any more and are down to cannibalizing other broken lenses. The 85/1.2 mk1 should not be so far out of date yet they are down to that point.

I would find another service center.

Heck even my old Hasselblad 500 EL/M which needed a lot of servicing and repair this year only cost 1/2 what they are going for used these days. And I thought that was a bit obsessive.

Hey, Longwatcher, remind me never to let you hold any of my lenses.

mark

$2500 for a new AF mechanism? That's insane. Was it an authorized Canon center, or your local camera shop tech? I'd find out about sending it in to Canon and see what they say if it's the latter. Hell, you can buy a new lens for that much money - and the glass is the expensive part, not the AF!

Dude...that seriously sucks...if you want to go out on a limb...I would box that bad boy up and send it to someone here in the states to see what Canon NJ or Canon CA has to say about it. Can't believe they would really want more than new price to perform a repair...seems like a second opinion is in order.

I agree with the above posts. It will probably be worth your while (and money) to send it to a Canon factory service centerto have it repaired. It shouldn't be more than $500 or so to fix.
That, or you can ship it to me since I live ten minutes from Canon Irvine. I'll take it off your hands and I'll even pay shipping

have you checked with Mack? who do their own repairs?

Another case showing the value of having a comprehensive insurance policy !

Marshall wrote in post #2034860
Another case showing the value of having a comprehensive insurance policy !

Sure, kick him while he's down why don't you?

It's such a great lens. Do everything you can think of to get it repaired. Only Canon authorized service centers...

Hi again guys, I did not expect that many reply's on that topic....

Well I will tell you a bit more specefic what is wrong, here's the Offer The Authorized Canon Center gave me:

all prices are in Danish Crowns DKK

So in total with repair work and these parts.

12,524 DKK = Approx: 2151 $

So its dead, maybe the insurance will pay something I dont know.... think sending it to the *States is a bit out og bounce....

The place i had it looked at is really an Authorized Canon thing without a question.

Mj

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