Broken lens?

[Goat Whisperer]

So I let my sister and aunt borrow my camera so they could take pics for my sisters husbands present. When I left I put it on all the right settings, but I had to go to work so I couldn't stay and take the actual pics. I had my 18-55 mm lens on the camera, and it was working fine. She called me at work and asked why it wouldn't zoom in and out. When I cam home and looked at it, I found it broken. She claimed, on the phone, that they hadn't done anything to it. And yet SOME how it was fine when I left and broken when I returned.

Long story short, I am NEVER letting anyone borrow it again. Imagine if they had damaged my 200 mm lens?

Is it unfixable? I use that lens for basic pictures with friends and close up pictures of smaller items, and it would suck not having both... here is a pic of the visible problem:



Like I said the zoom wheel won't turn. It also makes like 'rattling' sound when I move it up and down. It won't zoom or focus, I can take a picture, but there is like a black out around the picture, here is an example pic taken with the lens:

The arrows are pointing out black marks that the lens created:

 

[Ryder]

Get a new one.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Money is a funny thing,

Without it you can't buy stuff.

 

[skyblue]

its fixable bri but it might work out cheaper to go on ebay to actually replace it.....people buy the camera and sell the kit lenses off cheap

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Hey sky, did you take that birds picture in your avy? It's beautiful!

 

[Alien Allen]

i hate lending people stuff

seems like half the time it ends up getting damaged

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Ya, and even though my sister is rich, she is claiming it was broken before she got it. Her husband is bringing in 15'000 $ a week and they can't buy me a replacement 18-55 lens!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I think she is more worried about me trusting her with my stuff anymore. I would trust her if she would admit to breaking it and then replacing it, rather then just believing that it somehow broke when I handed her the camera. Which makes a person more trustworthy, admitting to it and fixing the damages, or refuting it and not fixing the damages?

 

[Alien Allen]

if I borrow something and it did not work to begin with I would have called the person I borrowed it from asking if there is something I am missing.

if I hand it back and they say it is broken I would man up and just say oh well and replace it if I could afford it. My integrity and self esteem would make me do that. I would figure I screwed up even though I did not know it.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Well, I handed it to her working, she might of dropped it on the bed or something, forgotten, and thought I had left it there, and then when she picked it up and found it broken, thought it wasn't her fault. It wasn't me, I am careful as hell with my camera!

 

[sierrabravo]

i wouldnt trust anybody with my camera... not even that random stranger "hey can you take our picture? hey asshole! Get back here with my camera!" (i had that dream once) You can try taking it to a camera repairman... may not be cheap to fix, but all depends on if its cheaper than buying a new one!

 

[Alien Allen]

those are the bottom of the line for lenes so I doubt it would be worth fixing unless it is something really simple

kind of like a $20 part and $100 labor for something that costs about that. unless you buy a high end lens

 

[sierrabravo]

those are the bottom of the line for lenes so I doubt it would be worth fixing unless it is something really simple

kind of like a $20 part and $100 labor for something that costs about that. unless you buy a high end lens

i was going to buy a really nice lense for my camera, but two problems:
1. I dont have $1300
2. My camera seems to be going down hill lately... it has that press-button-halfway-to-focus thing, and it wont focus like it used to...
so i'm just going to get a really nice new camera here soon...

 

[Alien Allen]

i was going to buy a really nice lense for my camera, but two problems:
1. I dont have $1300
2. My camera seems to be going down hill lately... it has that press-button-halfway-to-focus thing, and it wont focus like it used to...
so i'm just going to get a really nice new camera here soon...

I do not think I was responding to you was I??

If I was then you would have at least a $5k camera I would guess if a basic 18-55mm lens cost $1300

I paid $600 give or take for a 300mm lens for my camera and that lens was not junk.

 

[sierrabravo]

I do not think I was responding to you was I??

If I was then you would have at least a $5k camera I would guess if a basic 18-55mm lens cost $1300

I paid $600 give or take for a 300mm lens for my camera and that lens was not junk.

idk it might have been 1300 or something like that... just something i liked and wanted... I am actually going to try ebay after i get a new camera

 

[Floyd]

The only way to get the elements to go that far out of alignment is to knock the end of the lens fron the side when it's fully zoomed out.

Does you household insurance not cover for accidental damage? Or maybe *cough cough* the fact that the camera got knicked from your car?