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NEW 24-70mm f2.8ii Zoom Ring "Ticking" While Zooming

Started Oct 21, 2013 | Discussions thread
naturephotographer7 New Member • Posts: 1
Re: Black Friday batches?

entlassen wrote:

Is there anybody who picked up this lens around Black Friday/Cyber Monday who can share with us whether or not they received a lens with this ticking problem? If so, I'd be curious what the first 3 digitals on the serial are now, to see how far along they are in the monthly batches. B&H and Adorama have the sale right now at the $1699 low price, but if they're still sending out copies from faulty batches, that might be bad.

I ordered on Black Friday from B&H and it has 052 first three digits.. it has faint ticking sound and I have yet not put it on the body...

So when the price dropped I ordered another one from B&H and it had 072... It also has tick tick sound...

I am not sure how it's image quality is but I will try the later one to see if 072 is optically ok...

All my other canon lens are fine including 24-105L F4 IS and 70-200 F2.8 IS II.

It's disconcerting that Canon hasn't fixed the problem or hasn't addressed it....

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