Sigma 70-200 powder coating pealing off!?

[jontucker]

I have a Sigma 70-200 2.8 that's about 4 years old and recently the powder coating has started pealing off.

It's never been scratched to my knowledge, I just took it out of it's case one day and found a small area had let go of the metal and it's got worse and worse since then.

Has anyone else experienced this with Sigma lenses (or any lens come to that)? Would it effect the 2nd hand value much?

 

[dfrear]

Very common with all of the EX Sigma lenses unfortunately, does affect the 2nd hand value but not all that much as its so common

 

[jontucker]

Hmmm interesting, and annoying.

 

[Tobers]

You made it to 4 years before this started happening? I got to about 2 months with mine. You get what you pay for. Canon white paint lasts much longer but costs more.

 

[jontucker]

Really? Wow. Was covered under warranty?

 

[heidfirst]

Has anyone else experienced this with Sigma lenses (or any lens come to that)?

as already mentioned it's pretty common on Sigmas.

 

[bindex]

I've seen it before too. I know it doesn't effect the performance of the lens in any way but that's no excuse. Sigma should be able to do better than that. And despite what anyone tells you it will make a difference to the resale value should you ever want to sell it.

 

[miurasv]

This is why I will never buy a Sigma lens again. It seems you do get what you pay for. What's worrying is some of the lenses cost more than Canon and Nikon e.g the 50mm 1.4 prime and even though by all accounts it performs superbly if I'd bought one and the paint started peeling I'd be well ....ed off.

 

[PerfectSpeed]

Canon white paint lasts much longer but costs more.

That niggling question as to why they were so expensive is now answered

 

[neil_g]

personally ive found the coating only peels if theyve had a knock.

i expect if the coating on the canons was applied in the same way and wasnt painted it would do the same thing.

 

[mark richards]

All my sigma lens have this problem...the 150x500 os probable lasted one day, then the paint started to come off... No! it was not banged or knocked in any way...I find that the mat black used for models (airfix) is not a bad match...

 

[neil_g]

odd, ive had my 18-50 and 70-200 for a couple years now and only the 70-200 has a patch that resulted from a flying stone at a rally..

on the other hand the previous owner of the 120-300 did wear a lot of the coating off. i think thats why i got it so cheap as it put a lot of people off buying it. at the end of the day it doesnt effect the optics. ive got a lenscoat on my 120 now lol