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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · CPS Repairs - Aesthetics Issues. Your experience? | |
There are a few ways to look at this.
1. If the lens isn't too expensive and you have used it a lot and the issues are only cosmetic, it could make more sense to sell it at a low price, acknowledging the cosmetic issues. Less trouble for you, possibly a good deal for a buyer who doesn't care so much about aesthetic issues, and it could be more cost effective for you than paying for the repair. Yes, it depends on what lens we are dealing with.
2. Rather than fixing aesthetic issues, just live with them. If you use a lens a lot over a long period of time, it will show wear - that's the way things work. If you think of the lens as a tool and it still performs well, a few scratches and dings are not really that important. If you think of lenses as objects of technological or aesthetic beauty in and of themselves... well, we have a different sort of issue with a different set of values.
3. Over the lifetime of a lens, simply regard the cost as being normal service and repair - much like getting the oil changed in your car and periodically paying for more expensive repairs. We can easily get too caught up in the cost of this particular visit to the repair shop and forget the bigger picture of cost and return over the lifetime of the lens. $300 every 3-5 years is really not much money at all when you think of it this way. Many people spend more than that on Starbucks in a year!
Good luck,
Dan
Edited on Dec 14, 2013 at 10:44 AM · View previous versions
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