My wife dropped my slr in its bag. I think the 7d is fine but the Tamron seems to be knackered. It no longer seems to zoom past 35mm.. Any ideas if i can fix this or is it a gonner?
My wife dropped my slr in its bag. I think the 7d is fine but the Tamron seems to be knackered. It no longer seems to zoom past 35mm.. Any ideas if i can fix this or is it a gonner?
Perfect argument why your next lens should be a canon with a red band.
if shooting & pics are still fine it will suggest to me that the barrel distorted but optics are ok.
Depends on the make of the barrel, Tamron will likely be engineer plastic. Labour and parts will be more than a new one I think.
Once I got a Carl Zeiss lens from fleabay. solid metal barrel but seemed jammed. Got a Chinese technical to help, saw him use a hammer (literally) bang it.
And that is that, fixed.
The lens carries a market value of £800-1000 today.
I didn't tell him.
If you have no insurance for your gear claim off the house insurance, my house insurance covers any one item up to 2K no matter what it is.
Just a thought
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