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May 13, 2014 23:00:25   #
fotogk Loc: Tuftonboro, NH
 
Just wandering if other people have had the same results. I have been taking pictures for over 30 years and have been lucky enough to only need three lens and one camera repaired. Camera repair was my fault, the lens just stop working no dropping or banging. What I find interesting is all three repairs where Nikon lens while my other lens third party have not had to be repaired. The lens that I have had to have repaired have been used as much as the third party lens that have needed no repairs. Is this luck or has the third party lens build quality better then name brand.

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May 13, 2014 23:15:15   #
amehta Loc: Boston
 
fotogk wrote:
Just wandering if other people have had the same results. I have been taking pictures for over 30 years and have been lucky enough to only need three lens and one camera repaired. Camera repair was my fault, the lens just stop working no dropping or banging. What I find interesting is all three repairs where Nikon lens while my other lens third party have not had to be repaired. The lens that I have had to have repaired have been used as much as the third party lens that have needed no repairs. Is this luck or has the third party lens build quality better then name brand.
Just wandering if other people have had the same r... (show quote)

A handful of lenses is not enough to reach a conclusion.

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May 13, 2014 23:16:47   #
Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.
 
My first SLR was a Ricoh. It came with a 50mm lens, which I dropped on the floor and bend the edge, but managed to straighten it with a pair of pliers. Kept working on it, very gently and slowly, till the polarizing filter would screw on again. The lenst was still as sharp as ever.
The zoom lens or the camera itself have never needed repair.

I'm now on my third dSLR, with a total of 7 lenses. I've never needed any repair on any of the lenses or the three cameras. The dSLR cameras and the lenses I have with them are all Olympus (Zuiko) brand.

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May 13, 2014 23:27:34   #
Turbo Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
Such a situation is called "anecdotal evidence". It means that the sample is too small to reach a scientific conclusion.

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May 14, 2014 01:11:28   #
BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA
 
Unless it is kept in a temperature, humidity and contaminant free environment, it is likely that, sometime in an extended period of use, any piece of photographic gear will need CLA (Cleaning, Lubrication and Adjustment). If you have been using your same equipment for 25 years without CLA, good for you. Many action photograpgers rotate identical sets of gear, some having their equipment as often as bi-annually. Professionals consider this a routine part of doing business, just as we check and recertify railroad rolling stock according to a preset schedule. The military is another organization with a rigid preventive maintenance plan. So if your equipment has never needed service, its time is coming. It's not a matter of "if", but "when"!

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May 14, 2014 08:27:58   #
cthahn
 
No

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May 14, 2014 08:53:11   #
DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX
 
CLA is just preventive maintenance and should be done on a regular basis. If you have gone a long time without you were just lucky. I live in West Texas and we have a lot of dust, so I get mine in for CLA probably more often than someone who lives in a dust free environment.

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May 14, 2014 09:56:34   #
camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.
 
Let me put it to you this way, I have been shooting Nikon for more than 50 years. During that time one body had to be exchanged due to a factory defect and one lens had to be repaired because after a fall the elements decentered.
Enough said.

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May 14, 2014 10:10:56   #
haroldross Loc: Walthill, Nebraska
 
I have been using Canon DSLRs since the 300D. I have had two Canon lens that needed repair- a 24-105mm F/4L and a 50mm F/1.8. The 24-105mm (5 years old) started to not always change the aperture and the 50mm (under warranty) stopped autofocusing. These lens were the lens that I constantly used. The 24-105mm us constantly on a camera body and the 50mm f/1.8 has been replaced. With the 50mm f/1.4 and it is constantly on a camera body. Out of over a dozen Canon lens over the years, these are the only ones that needed repaired. Will I purchase another Canon lens, probably. Will I purchase a third party lens, probably. If you use a lens, it will eventually wear out or need repaired.

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May 15, 2014 00:00:21   #
BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA
 
cthahn wrote:
No

No to what? Please learn to use "Quote Reply"; if the quote is too long for practical purposes, you do have the right to select the part to which you are attempting a reply and deleting the rest.

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