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[marine1]

Hi guys, I just smashed my Sigma lens, the 170-500.
Any idea where I can take it to get it fixed?
The housing is cracked.

I also need to get my internal mirror cleaned - Sony Alpha A700, where in JHB can I take it?

Thanks

 

[bwana]

AFAIK Tudor Photographic in Cape town handles all sigma repairs in SA.

 

[marine1]

Thanks Bwana, found this:
The JHB repair centre for Sigma is Steven Sen 011 339 4049

 

[Luf]

ahhh man sorry to here - never get a good feeling hearing that.

Tip to everyone: Put a UV filter on all your lenses, it might just save you one day.

 

[bwana]

ahhh man sorry to here - never get a good feeling hearing that.

Tip to everyone: Put a UV filter on all your lenses, it might just save you one day.

A filter probably wouldnt have prevented a cracked housing.

Sorry - but I'm anti UV filters in general.

 

[SubliminalThought]

Lens hoods the best protection for your lens

 

[bwana]

Lens hoods the best protection for your lens

Couldn't agree more.

 

[Luf]

A filter probably wouldnt have prevented a cracked housing.

Sorry - but I'm anti UV filters in general.

haha alot of people are. Tell me why please.

They can help hey, seen a lot of cracked UV filters which have saved people thousands of rands. so i have always used them.

 

[bwana]

haha alot of people are. Tell me why please.

They can help hey, seen a lot of cracked UV filters which have saved people thousands of rands. so i have always used them.

In my experience they lead to flaring.

Unless you're using a wide angle lens, which have those shallow lens hoods, a lens hood should prevent anything - short of a spike - from even getting near the glass.

 

[SubliminalThought]

Introducing any glass or even some empty space (macro tubes) is going to affect light that travels through it. Your thousands of rand lens has superior glass and adding a UV filter would degrade quality so why spend that much on the lens?

I don't have an opinion either way. I personally use the PRO Kenko UV filters on my lenses. You will definitely see a degradation if you use cheap filters.