Different people have different experiences to contribute:
1) Without two cops of espresso coffee in the morning I can't even move my hands
2) My Albinar 28-200 mm macro zoom lens fell from a chair and the two bolts that bear the Nylon rollers were broken. I disassembled the Albinar easily, took out the broken parts and re-assembled it before I took it to a repair shop. It was all done in 30 minutes.
3) The man in the repair shop (a friend who originally sells and repairs Diesel engines for model aircrafts) disassembled it in 3 minutes, drilled two tiny holes and fixed the Nylon rollers with two little screws. Not an ideal solution but it works. The whole repair took about 30 minutes.
4) This happened on the Canary Islands, the next specialised photo-repair shop being 2000 miles away. Guess how happy I was...
My two cents to that subject may be outdated but I just came across this thread browsiing the web.
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Different people have different experiences to contribute:
1) Without two cops of espresso coffee in the morning I can't even move my hands
2) My Albinar 28-200 mm macro zoom lens fell from a chair and the two bolts that bear the Nylon rollers were broken. I disassembled the Albinar easily, took out the broken parts and re-assembled it before I took it to a repair shop. It was all done in 30 minutes.
3) The man in the repair shop (a friend who originally sells and repairs Diesel engines for model aircrafts) disassembled it in 3 minutes, drilled two tiny holes and fixed the Nylon rollers with two little screws. Not an ideal solution but it works. The whole repair took about 30 minutes.
4) This happened on the Canary Islands, the next specialised photo-repair shop being 2000 miles away. Guess how happy I was...
My two cents to that subject may be outdated but I just came across this thread browsiing the web.
Schnapp