Pulled this lens out of my backpack this morning and saw a little piece of plastic laying in the bag, I picked it up and noticed right away what it was from and turns out it was the 80mm lock switch. I can't understand how it broke as in the pack it is secure and there is no way anything could have hit it. looking at how flimsy the connecting piece of plastic is that goes down into the lens I am not suprised.
Anyone else have an issue with this? I suppose it has to go to Nikon for the fix.
Weird. That sucks - I use my lock switch all the time and have dragged it fairly unprotected across the country a few times and to Africa, no problems yet.
Kind of interesting, what kind of pack, was it a dedicated photo pack? How was it protected? I take mine all over in my Lowepro Photo pack and no issues...
Mine is a Lowepro also, and I just can't figure it out, i haven't dropped, banged, forced it or anything. Go Figure, anyway some quick pics - excuse the poor iphone shots.
Crazy! Never have encountered this before. Admittedly I rarely use the lock switch on this lens, don't really feel it's necessary (though the 24-120 f/4 could use it!)
The bad thing is Nikon will charge $500 for the repair, blaming damage on you.
Yeah thats what im afriad of, and it is probably about a 1 cent piece of plastic. seriously - the little plastic connector that broke couldn't be more than 3-4 mm across and it is hollow. Not a very durable switch.
Kidding aside, that does suck - I'd still send it to Nikon and see what happens - if they want to charge you for the repair, just refuse and have the lens sent back. APS can do it for sure and probably at a reasonable rate.
Yeah I'm going to contact them monday and get it moving. At first I thought I might use it how it is until the snow falls, but realized yesterday the switch holds the lock /unlock internals in place. Without the switch the internals flop around freely with gravity so sometimes it will lock just from picking it up. Kinda of annoying when you need to zoom quickly and its locked.
Hopefully it's not the shape of things to come and is a one-time fluke.
So far it seems the Nikon quality control issues were primarily with camera bodies. If it starts extending out to the new lenses that will really irk me!