Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

[josephlck]

[StephenL]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

Insurance job? Send them the quote for repair. You'll probably find they'll opt to replace it.

[Ian]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

Let's say there is a new camera soon that works extremely well with the 12-60; maybe second hand values will rise

Ian

[StephenL]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

Let's say there is a new camera soon that works extremely well with the 12-60; maybe second hand values will rise

Ian

Ian, have you been listening to those rumours again?

[Ian]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

Ian, have you been listening to those rumours again?

Me? Listen? Never!

I just make'em... !

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

Most lenses with mechanical focusing reach infinity before the end-stop - it's quite normal. Unless yours is excessive of course?

Ian

[PeterBirder]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

Most lenses with mechanical focusing reach infinity before the end-stop - it's quite normal. Unless yours is excessive of course?

Ian

I always struggle with the concept of being able to focus "beyond infinity". Is it an oxmoron or a paradox?

[David M]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

I don't think I've ever looked at the distance scale on my SWD lenses, I focus them through the viewfinder like all my manual focus primes.

As for the 12-60, it's one of those lenses I'll keep until it's either no longer repairable or there's no longer a body to use it on.

[josephlck]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

Most lenses with mechanical focusing reach infinity before the end-stop - it's quite normal. Unless yours is excessive of course?

Ian

I've never noticed it before. It's perhaps 0.5mm or less.

I am rather fond of the lens but it's so big and slow on the E-M1!! If I was still using my 510, I would have definitely repaired it but the more I think about it, the more I wonder that the money would be better invested into the (rumored) 12-40 f2.8.

[Jim Ford]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

I always struggle with the concept of being able to focus "beyond infinity". Is it an oxmoron or a paradox?

You can't focus past infinity, but you can focus on infinity then walk forwards 10 ft. You're then focussing on infinity + 10 ft!

It's a bit like 'Hilbert's Hotel'!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel

Jim

[josephlck]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

You can't focus past infinity, but you can focus on infinity then walk forwards 10 ft. You're then focussing on infinity + 10 ft!

It's a bit like 'Hilbert's Hotel'!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel

Jim

Now my head hurts... If you add an infinite number of people to an infinite number of people, you still have an infinite number of people so the hotel can always have more people...

[josephlck]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

back on the original topic, I'm very much leaning towards it not being worth the repair. I was just thinking, could I send it to Olympus? I hear they they charge a flat fee so may be less than Luton?

[Jim Ford]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

If it's uneconomical to repair, I'd be tempted to have a look at it myself if it was mine.

Jim

[PeterBirder]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

Now my head hurts... If you add an infinite number of people to an infinite number of people, you still have an infinite number of people so the hotel can always have more people...

If Schroedinger took his cat to the hotel you'd have an even bigger headache.
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat"]Schrödinger's cat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

I'll go now.

[peak4]

Re: Repair 12-60 1:2.8-4?

back on the original topic, I'm very much leaning towards it not being worth the repair. I was just thinking, could I send it to Olympus? I hear they they charge a flat fee so may be less than Luton?

They do a flat rate, but it now seems to depend on the lens.
Unfortunately, the 12-60mm isn't listed
http://www.olympus.co.uk/site/media/downloads/Price_list_v1_-_GBP_UK.pdf