{"id":2558,"date":"2012-12-17T17:50:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T07:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardmcgibbon.com\/news\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2020-02-03T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T03:42:45","slug":"lens-testing-at-oxford-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmcgibbon.com\/news\/lens-testing-at-oxford-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lens Testing at Oxford Falls Downhill Track"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Downhill, Oxford Falls, Australia<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of months ago I handed in my 28-300mm L lens to my local repair centre. It had been a long time since it had been serviced and it certainly gets enough abuse. It had a broken roller and wasn’t moving through the focus range smoothly. They were quick and prompt with the service getting it back to me before the week ended. I was quite happy with the service until I actually came to use it. From what was a broken roller I now had issues with my aperture, my image stabiliser and the lock that let me keep the lens shut. After jumping up and down in frustration at the camera repair man who more or less told me it was all in my imagination I took my lens directly to Canon. Almost 4 weeks later and nearly $1000 out of pocket I got it back so this weekend was spent putting it through its paces to make sure that it was all running smoothly again.<\/p>\n

I spent a few hours on Saturday and a few on Sunday up at Oxford Falls downhill trails just shooting with a few friends and a couple of random riders. Quite happy with the shots. It’s great to have my old faithful back again and Canon, despite taking a silly amount of time to repair the lens, have done a great job at fixing, it. Thanks to all who were there and let me shoot them.<\/p>\n

Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\t\t