Avoiding lens slipping off camera? 40-150 f2.8 came off today...

James Pilcher wrote:

Psychobabble wrote:

James Pilcher wrote:

Tapper123 wrote:

Have you ever had a lens slip off the camera?

Neither have I, until earlier today.

(In fact I've decided to sell it because I really love my gear to look perfect, so if you're interested it's in the DPreview selling forum here. I have photos of it there as well.)

Great marketing: Announce that you've dropped a lens and then offer it for sale. You may find a taker, though, because there's a sucker born every minute.

Jim Pilcher
Bonita Springs, Florida, USA

I'm afraid that was my initial thought as well, but after thinking about it, I appreciate his honesty.

As I commented in another post, yes, the OP is being honest. But I think it unwise for anyone to buy that lens, and unwise for him to sell it, until it has been properly examined by Olympus repair. Unwise for him because without that repair certificate, that lens could haunt him even after the sale if the buyer is not happy for any reason. If nothing else, a buyer can have buyer's remorse and unethically invoke the cry "not sharp enough" because the buyer knows there is no blessing laid upon the lens by Olympus.

On the other hand, it could go swimmingly for both parties. It's a crapshoot, though.

Jim Pilcher
Bonita Springs, Florida, USA

This is part of the reason why I am so uncomfortable buying used equipment.  Sometimes the  damage is not as obvious as this one was on the externals.  I would never buy a lens that looked like this without a repair certificate, and even then, I'm not sure....who's to say that the lens was repaired before then dropped?