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Hi guys,
I just finished a longish trip on the Pamir Highway by bicycle. The roads were really bad and i've done alot of damage to my gear.
The lens which was mounted to my camera most of the time was a Nikkor 18-200mm VR. At first the lens stopped focusing past 100mm, the front element came very loose and eventually fell out! I put it all back togethor and cleaned it and the camera worked well for a couple of weeks It now refuses to autofocus and the metering on it is completely out (everything is very blown). If i mount a different lens to the camera the resulting pictures meter well and the autofocus is very sharp as before. The lens doesn't feel that smooth any more (I assume its very dusty inside)... I've tried the usual fiddling with the little focus arm , but thats not working.
I could have used the camera by bracketing everything and manual focusing...but....
The body Nikon d80- works as before except for the fact the viewfinder now doesnt correspond to what the lens takes (even with a new lens fitted to the front of it). I have a few more lens back home which i tested with the camera and they take very sharp images. But they look blurred when i look through my viewfinder...only when i press the shutter and reevalutate do i find they are sharp...very strange.
got my estimate from Nikon today:
The D80 is £123 + VAT = £141.35 which i think is worth doing
The 18-200 is going to be over £320 to repair.
Looking at ebay prices i think it might be bin bin bin time for the 18-200 the quote is for £90 labour, £38 on a GMR sensor unit, £130 on a 'group tube unit' and £15 on the filter ring. I don't really know what to do with it. and it has a couple of teeny scratchs in the face of it. +vat on all that
I can get a new chinese VR for about £460 by the looks of things, and wonder if i'll get a couple hundred quid for the 18-200 on ebay even broken!
What do people advise me to do!??!
I don't have very much money at the moment. Who should i take them to and what shall i do. How long do these sorts of repairs normally take.
I just finished a longish trip on the Pamir Highway by bicycle. The roads were really bad and i've done alot of damage to my gear.
The lens which was mounted to my camera most of the time was a Nikkor 18-200mm VR. At first the lens stopped focusing past 100mm, the front element came very loose and eventually fell out! I put it all back togethor and cleaned it and the camera worked well for a couple of weeks It now refuses to autofocus and the metering on it is completely out (everything is very blown). If i mount a different lens to the camera the resulting pictures meter well and the autofocus is very sharp as before. The lens doesn't feel that smooth any more (I assume its very dusty inside)... I've tried the usual fiddling with the little focus arm , but thats not working.
I could have used the camera by bracketing everything and manual focusing...but....
The body Nikon d80- works as before except for the fact the viewfinder now doesnt correspond to what the lens takes (even with a new lens fitted to the front of it). I have a few more lens back home which i tested with the camera and they take very sharp images. But they look blurred when i look through my viewfinder...only when i press the shutter and reevalutate do i find they are sharp...very strange.
got my estimate from Nikon today:
The D80 is £123 + VAT = £141.35 which i think is worth doing
The 18-200 is going to be over £320 to repair.
Looking at ebay prices i think it might be bin bin bin time for the 18-200 the quote is for £90 labour, £38 on a GMR sensor unit, £130 on a 'group tube unit' and £15 on the filter ring. I don't really know what to do with it. and it has a couple of teeny scratchs in the face of it. +vat on all that
I can get a new chinese VR for about £460 by the looks of things, and wonder if i'll get a couple hundred quid for the 18-200 on ebay even broken!
What do people advise me to do!??!
I don't have very much money at the moment. Who should i take them to and what shall i do. How long do these sorts of repairs normally take.
Hope that helps!
I don't know how you could go about packing a camera safely for a long cycling trip.. wear it in rucksack perhaps, as far away from the road surface as possible?