Gunzorro wrote:
Bob -- Great shots with your rental 24-105. Looks like a keeper!
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Along Porter Creek Road.
Thanks Jim. It turns out that's not a rental! The rental was a bad copy like the other so back it went. Yesterday, I had some free time before meeting some photog friends so I stopped in my local shop. They had one copy of the 24-105 but it was being held for someone. They called him a couple of times. He called back while I was still in the store and said he already found a copy. So this was mine if I wanted it. Turns out it has the potentially dreaded 181xxxx serial number but I finally got lucky . . . this copy was not affected by the focus issue! Sold!