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Last weekend I tripped over the coffee table and my camera went flying off. It was wearing the Sigma 24-70 2.8, the most expensive lens in my bag. Needless to say I nearly started crying.

The lens body cracked in the area where the manual autofocus button is. At first it would not work but as I managed to push the crack together a bit more it started to focus when taking photos although made a lot of noise.

I ended up phoning our insurance company as we are covered for accidental damage and the lens has now gone to Jessops for them to review and give a repair estimate. I will have to survive without the lens for a whole month which is a setback.

The question is, do you think it will be a repair or replace job?

Thanks
 
Shame it went to Jessops - direct to Sigma would have been better for you.

But most likely it will be a repair job.
 
Repair - a cracked body is easily replaceable (whether the cost is acceptable to the insurance company is another matter) as the lens' internal elements come as a sealed unit.

A Calumet spokesman told me at Photokina that Nikon's 24-70 f/2.8 is so sophisticated that if a customer damages one, they just swap-out the entire inner assembly and put it back into your old barrel assembly - it might look like your old lens, but all the glass will be new. The cost of trying to actually repair the lens element assembly is so prohibitive that it makes more sense to just swap it entirely and suck up the cost.

Whether Sigma lenses are produced in a similar manner or not I don't know, but the actual unit price of a barrel assembly sans glass, probably isn't all that much.
 
Just had my Canon 24-70 smashed so I know how you feel :(, got a quote of not worth fixing, too costly, replace recommended , going through insurance though.
 
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