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Canon won't repair my 135L! Other options?

Started 6 months ago | Discussions thread
bodeswell Senior Member • Posts: 1,378
Re: Canon won't repair my 135L! Other options?

John Crowe wrote:

It may have been discontinued within the past two years, but not five!

My point is that we don’t know how long ago they stopped manufacturing the EF 135. I, like lots of people, like the EF 135 lens. But I don’t think it was a best seller for Canon. I suspect that the cool kids just use 70-200 zooms to get their 135mm kicks.

I see a lot of lenses were discontinued by early 2022.

This is happening very fast! As the other poster mentioned, virtually none of these discontinued lenses have RF alternatives.

But they will. In any case, really popular lenses like the EF 100-400 L are still available new and many EF lenses are available used. Also, “virtually none” is an overstatement.

They have handled the transition a lot more considerately than they handled the FD transition. But it has been obvious that a transition was underway ever since they announced the new mount.

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