Three year warranty on Canon L series lenses

You need it. The USM motors go, they get dust inside sometimes, the AF fails or malfunctions, the locks and moving parts fail.
 
GTG said:
You need it. The USM motors go, they get dust inside sometimes, the AF fails or malfunctions, the locks and moving parts fail.
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Don't talk b*****ks ffs!
 
If Canon L lenses were generally unreliable I doubt you'd see as many red ring lensed cameras being waved by the press every time there's a breaking news story on the TV. If those guys miss a photo it costs them dearly, so they just wouldn't put up with it, would they?
 
Cobra said:
Goddamn it! I bought a 100-400mkII during July this year
Missed it by a week :(


Errr unless your profile is lying ....
2 Canon bodies and a couple of lenses too ...
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Yes lots of Canon gear and Nikon and Fuji.

Had a £ 1700 70-300, broken USM, the lock failed, zoom creep unreal, full of dust. £ 1700 mind you.

I could find you dozens of broken L glass in 20 minutes from business sellers. Many are manual only because AF broken
 
GTG said:
Yes lots of Canon gear and Nikon and Fuji.
Had a £ 1700 70-300, broken USM, the lock failed, zoom creep unreal, full of dust. £ 1700 mind you.
I could find you dozens of broken L glass in 20 minutes from business sellers. Many are manual only because AF broken
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And there are more I'm sure in perfect working order...
So I really have no idea what you or these others are doing with their kit, I've had the same "L" lenses ( and other usm's ) for several years and not one issue,
apart from a 300 f/4 is ( if you can call it an issue) that I had serviced recently.
 
GTG said:
You need it. The USM motors go, they get dust inside sometimes, the AF fails or malfunctions, the locks and moving parts fail.
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There is only one reason Canon is making this offer - because they know it will cost them next to nothing.
 
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12 years with all Canon L and the only fault I ever got was the slip ring on a mk1 100-400l failing. I'm all Fuji now but wouldn't hesitate to go back to Canon with L glass if I where to go back to big cameras.
 
These extended warranties are only if you bought the lens fairly recently.. not for lenses bought over a year ago... and as mentioned probably never get used :(
 
GTG said:
Yes lots of Canon gear and Nikon and Fuji.

Had a £ 1700 70-300, broken USM, the lock failed, zoom creep unreal, full of dust. £ 1700 mind you.
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KIPAX said:
L lens... EL L l L
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A Canon 70-300 that costs £1700 which one is that? The most recent L version is nothing like that price, though I do not recall it price when first released???
 
Canon Bob said:
Fernando Alonso has made quite a few claims during the warranty period!
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I doubt he could claim - no warranty on non consumer product. :-)
Actually that reminds me of the situation the skipper of a dive boat I used, he had experimental Honda engine/gearboxes on his HUGE RIB, kept failing, Honda kept replacing, must have cost them a fortune over the 2 year period, eventually he replaced the outboards with one large diesel inboard (Volvo I think).
Back to the OP, my guess is they have done their research and looked at he stats and reckon this will be financially no risk, when Sigma etc guarantee their lenses for longer than an L series you have to wonder why (probably at a guess Sigma get used by amateurs in general and L's by a large percentage of pros and if the glass is "supplied" by an employer it probably gets a hard life, I wonder if they are covered or would abuse/neglect/damage be excluded?)

Matt
 
I think you'll find this is a move to stem the flow of grey imports which have a three year warranty?
 
GTG said:
You need it. The USM motors go, they get dust inside sometimes, the AF fails or malfunctions, the locks and moving parts fail.
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Any camera or lens can go wrong but I've never had any Canon camera or lens go wrong in many years of photography and I'm sure the same is true of most makes
 
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LCPete said:
Any camera or lens can go wrong but I've never had any Canon camera or lens go wrong in many years of photography and I'm sure the same is true of most makes
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Hush now Canon Fanboy. GTG has spoken and decreed they are all s***e, despite our anecdotal evidence to the opposite.

Most of mine are 12 years old, only L lens I've had break is my abused 24-105 and that was fixed by Canon, who lent me me a spare whilst they did it (good old CPS). I did send in my lads EFS 15-85 after he dropped it mind...
 
GTG said:
You need it. The USM motors go, they get dust inside sometimes, the AF fails or malfunctions, the locks and moving parts fail.
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As has been mentioned, you appear to be talking out of the wrong orifice.
 
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