It's been a while since I owned that lens, but many zooms, especially long
ones and older ones, exhibit some sort of "play" that, at first, seems unusual,
but may be due to age, or may be designed in there to compensate for
temperature variations and have no ill effect on the performance or reliability
of the
lens.
I have very recently experienced this "fondler's syndrome" from a buyer that
whined and whined about several things, but he never tested the item (a camera
body) by actually doing what it was designed for, and that is, take a
picture. Never tried it out, just held it and looked at it. The body had been
professionally CLA'd just 2 1/2 months before, and I knew all was well, but I
took
the camera back and had it re-checked by the top man at the place that did the
CLA, and he certified in writing AGAIN that everything was "100% accurate." I
decided to refund the buyer's money anyway, because he wasn't happy and I
didn't want any bad feelings. Maybe it was an impulse purchase and he had
buyer's
remorse, or his wife said "You bought ANOTHER camera!?" I dunno. I just know he
never tested it.
George S.
Here is the problem as it was described to me:
Imagine you afffix the camera body to the lens so neither move in any way.
It is completely rigid. If you put your hand on the outboard end of the
lens, (whether all the way in or all the way out) and pull up and then let
go
the end of the lens will move up and down about 3/16 of an inch. The play
is
located between the barrel containing the f stop setting and the barrel that
has the white main focal distance reference mark.
Any help would be _greatly_ appreciated!
Thanks
--PatrickJ
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