Give me an idea of the damage...

Just had my 35L drop out of my bag after the zip failed - fell 4 feet on to concrete. It's still AFing and MFing ok but the elements are out of whack and it's certainly not focusing right.

Any idea of what the financial damage to repair will be - the service centre is shut ATM....

Ta

Bad luck Scott, more often than not a good L lens should be able to take a fall like that and be ok...as for cost, sorry I can't help. I wish you luck that it isn't too steep.

just call canon repair and talk to them?

Spacemunkie wrote in post #11233715
Now why didn't I think of that? Oh yes, they're shut until Monday....

Was just wondering if anyone else had done something similar to give me an idea of how many changes of underwear I might need to keep ready for when I receive the bill

Had about 100 close calls and finally this one (1 bottle of wine in) - 5D2 and 35L hit the floor. Focusing fine but a piece of body broke off. Now I'm wondering... how much damage is covered in a $180 flat fee?

RL. wrote in post #11233683
just call canon repair and talk to them?

They won't give an estimate anyway. Well, wouldn't for me.

Dropped my 24-70 on concrete last year, crushed the focus and zoom ring the mount ring came off, $153 as a CPS member, I shipped overnight Monday had it back that Friday good as new.

Whew! Sure is darned lucky you had that protekshun filter on it!

Of course a lens cap might have worked even better.

Or - who knows - a high impact plastic bayonet lens hood instead (if only one were available to fit the lens) might have absorbed enough of the blow to prevent jarring the elements inside out of whack.

Now seriously, I feel your pain... I had a similar experience when a camear with a nearly-new 135/2 mounted fell out of my car seat onto the pavement, nose down, then tumbled onceor twice. Probably a 3 or 4 ft drop. Nearly gave me a heart attack...actually broke the lens cap.... and put one or two little scrapes on the lens hood (reversed at the time) and the camera's battery grip. Fortunately, only the $10 cap and very minor cosmetic damage... Both lens and camera still work just fine. No filter on the lens at the time, I don't use protection filters as a rule because with my luck, if there had been it would have shattered and driven sharp shards of glass into the front lens element.

Hmmmmm... Wonder if we could get Mythbusters to buy a few hundred lenses and cameras to scientifically test the "protection filter vs. proper-hood-and/or-cap-instead-of-filter" theories?

You'll need to send the lens to Canon to get a repair quote. It's really impossible to say what's needed, without taking the lens apart. The costs might be covered by homeowner's insurance, depending upon your coverage.

Spacemunkie wrote in post #11232882
Just had my 35L drop out of my bag after the zip failed (Tamrac POS has been kicked around the house repeatedly since I got home ).

It dropped 4 feet and landed with a SMACK front element down on concrete. Fortunately it landed absolutely square and I had a filter on the front - no damage to the front element and not a scratch on the lens. It's still AFing and MFing ok but the elements are out of whack and it's certainly not focusing right.

Any idea of what the financial damage to repair will be - the service centre is shut ATM....

Ta

<cough> at least you have the filter on <cough>