My ever-reliable 24-70L has been acting up today. It started with my camera (1dIIn) refusing to shoot with error 01. I cleaned the contacts and tried another lens and had no trouble shooting. I put the 24-70 back on and pressed the manual aperture buttons and the blades locked to f/ 8 and now they refuse to go back. Obviously the issue here is the lens. I did some searching and couldn't find any instances of people having this problem with the 24-70, so I just wanted to know if there's anything I can try before sending this thing off to canon
My was getting to where it just didn't seem to be as consistently sharp as it once was and I had purchased it used a few years ago. I spoke with TF camera repair who has repaired two other lenses for me and was told that there is a common part in the 24-70 L that gets worn out. I think he called it a "key" or something like that. It is the most common repair on that lens. Round trip on the repair, to include the shipping was about $240. Don't know if that is your issue but it is worth checking.
graycat wrote:
My was getting to where it just didn't seem to be as consistently sharp as it once was and I had purchased it used a few years ago. I spoke with TF camera repair who has repaired two other lenses for me and was told that there is a common part in the 24-70 L that gets worn out. I think he called it a "key" or something like that. It is the most common repair on that lens. Round trip on the repair, to include the shipping was about $240. Don't know if that is your issue but it is worth checking. ...Show more →
Bushing around screws can be worn out. Allegedly canon service does this repair either free or discounted...I don't know it to be true or false.
I would think there would be a service advisory about it if there was an issue. However I also use my 24-70 pretty often and it's as good as the day I bought it.
