Damaged lens - what to do?

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A friend have mine has suffered from some pretty serious impact damage after dropping her Canon EOS 400D on its lens. The pictures below show what's happened but, basically, the front of the lens has become skewed and far-from-straight. Is this repairable at a reasonable cost or is the lens kaput?

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It looks a bit buggered to me. However it just looks like the cheapo standard Canon lens? Might be a good time to replace it with a better one :D
 
You can get a used replacement on here for around £30-40 (non-IS version)
But as mentioned above, if your budget allows perhaps go for something new
 
+1 on that. If it was the standard non IS kit lens you could get another one off e-bay if you really wanted to. My wife's one is a really good example, so some do exist but general feeling is they are not the best lens in the world. Insurance claim?

Matt
 
Get him to take it to one of the Canon roadshows and ask there. It can be repaired, but it depends on whether the repair cost is economic compared to writing it off an dbuying another second hand......the bits aren't that expensive, but labour might be, then add VAT (don't forget it is now 17.5% again) and carriage and you might be better to just go and get a replacement.

This is one of the things that the difference between consumer lens quality and professional lens quality differs. Imaging if you had been on assignment somewhere and you dropped the camera....not unheard of. Pro lenses will take an enormous amount of grief before giving up the ghost like this - I saw a Nikon F5 and 80-200 f2.8 dropped from a helicopter, it fell about 80 feet onto grass - the bayonet mount bent but it was far from badly damaged - the camera body was still usable there and then.
 
I'll talk to her about the options - you're right in thinking it's the standard 18-55mm non-IS lens and, given how she uses the camera, she'd only ever really want to replace it with the same...it's a wonder she was ever guided in the direction of SLRs but she was on an art course and the lecturer insisted!
 
Well if she doesn't really need/want a DSLR then maybe it's an opportunity to go the other way and sell the body to buy a compact/bridge camera instead?
 
Time to buy another lens I feel looking at that picture :thumbs:

Don't just throw the busted one away, advertise it as it is, you never know, someone may want to pay a few quid and have a play around, better than £0 in the bin :shrug:
 
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