Is it me?
Nic referred me to a page on Ken Rockwell’s site about the surprising sturdiness of the new 18-200 lens. Since mine is in the shop after a very minor mishap, he knew I’d find it interesting.
So I emailed Ken yesterday, and today my saga appeared on that page, as the guy in Seattle, i.e. no location.
So let me get this right: everyone else finds this lens really durable, and mine falls apart when I bump it a bit. But it’s not just me: a friend of our neighbor David dropped his and it broke in two.
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on November 18, 2006 at 12:15 am Tom wrote:
Maybe you got the lemon of the batch — we had a Jetta for years that was supposedly a great car. It stunk, but everyone else we knew with a Jetta had a great experience. This car would have broken down after a light tap on your ceiling, too. I guess the vagaries of manufacturing are more than our simple minds can handle.
on November 18, 2006 at 3:02 am nick wrote:
when you want something to break it wont,when you don’t want it to break it will. some murphy guy once said that!!
on November 18, 2006 at 8:46 am Doug wrote:
Hey guys, check out the new blog header. Photo taken from the front porch, in my underwear. Regretfully, the wealthy suckers across the street didn’t get a shot looking back up the hill.
on November 19, 2006 at 12:55 pm George Siede wrote:
I’d say the one big difference is that all the surviving lenses were in the stored position (fully retracted) whereas yours was fully extended. When the lens extension is all the way inside there is less sideways leverage being applied by the impact. That plus the possible additional forces involved in your case due to the fact that it was mounted on a tripod (a very long lever) rather than being able to bounce may have been the cause of the failure.
It could be worse - when I worked as a tech at the Video Center in college a new intern borrowed a hand held video camera for the first time. She dropped it, only to see it bounced down a set of stairs and into the swimming pool where she was taping the swim team.
Xorge