RCicala

I'm going to agree with dottore and I think his point is important. This wasn't a carefully controlled study, just simply me seeing something I found interesting and telling people about it. I'm...

I just want to throw my $0.02 in: I agree with everything in this series of comments. Like Iskender said, pixel-peeping gets frustrating and expensive, and like Andy said, it usually doesn't...

The first difference is the difference between line width (one black line) and line pairs (one black and one white line) Basically the number for line pairs is 1/2 of line width given the same...

Unfortunately, we're closing them out. The copies we have are all at their 2 year old age limit and we can't get new ones. That page shouldn't be displaying anymore (I checked and it wasn't showing...

Every so often, I read an article and think, "man, I wish I'd thought of writing something like that." This is one of those. I enjoyed it immensely.

My first digital camera was actually an Apple...

The main reason I don't do all of them is that it's a one-tailed curve. We have some 'short timers' that stand out. There's 3 times as many lenses in the 60-80 rental weeks per repair group as in...

As Richard said we discussed this (and I will add I found the discussion useful - Richard and Shawn had good thoughts about why this might be occurring).

I thought the 70-200 f/2.8 data was the...

It wasn't on the list (5% most repaired). We've only had the 70-200 f/2.8 VC in stock for 6 months or so, though, so it's early to say much other than looking good so far.
Roger

Thank you, doctorbza! That just made my day :-)
I'm sure a lot of people file most of my work under "Epic Fail".
Roger

In the U. S. all Olympus repairs now are forwarded to and handled by Precision Camera Repair in El Paso. There's not an Olympus factory service anymore.  Roger Cicala

I would try it if I could just figure out what the 'average photographer' is :-) I know that several times a month we'll get a lens back, test it and find it's out of sorts and email the last...

One thing to consider is that all of the above were using Imatest-type software which is testing at 8 to 16 feet, not at infinity. An optical bench testing at infinity might find quite different...

Actually, after Nikon and Canon, m4/3 is the next largest renting system, followed closely by NEX. Then a huge drop off to Fuji, Leica, and other systems.  Roger Cicala, Lensrentals

A couple of thoughts on why Nikon rentals are down.  1) In 2012 there were a lot of cameras and lenses that just weren't very available. We had them in stock and rented constantly. It might be 2012...

Try http://www.lensauthority.com/   We're separating the sales website from the rental website, but haven't gone public with it yet until we move everything over there. Being a separate...

John,  No, that is the way I do rear dust in 24-70s, but doesn't help the 80-400. For that one the procedure is this: 1) The rubber seal around the very front of the lens peels off - it's held on...

I cleaned out one for the second time yesterday, so I think it does come back, but it's a little early for me to say. I've never gotten one from the factory with dust in the front, but there could...

FWIW - Lensrentals has about 40 of the new 80-400s and have had to clean front dust out of 10 so far. That's very similar to what we see with the Canon 100-400 and Canon has never considered it a...

Some do wear gloves but I hate the loss of tactile feel that causes. I'd rather clean things if necessary during reassembly than strip a screw or tear a flex that was glued down.

I keep my hands...

Some do wear gloves but I hate the loss of tactile feel that causes. I'd rather clean things if necessary during reassembly than strip a screw or tear a flex that was glued down during the...