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My shirt fell down while I was wearing it and while my R5 handled it better than I, alas my RF 100-500 front element has sustained three chips and the threads on the front are damaged as well. Lens hood is a gonner as well. (I do not have Canon CarePAK, because I never damage my equipment!)

When I enter my information on Canon Repair website, I get:

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Which tells be it is no longer supported.


Can anyone point me in a direction of getting the lens repaired?

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If Canon won't repair APS in the Chicago area probably will. I've not dealt with them, but they are highly recommended for Nikon service by Nikon fanatics (as a former Nikon shooter I have read only good reviews about APS). They repair Nikon, Canon and Sony gear and might be worth a phone call.

Hope that helps.
 
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I agree that you need to call them. I deal mostly with the facility in Newport News, Virginia. I have been a CPS gold member for 20 some years. For me it's worth it, I send in bodies and lenses every year or so for routine inspection and cleaning and have taken advantage of the discount on major repairs like when my 85mm f/1.2 had a spot of fungus on an interior element. For that lens they replaced the element and it ran about $300 with the discount. Not cheap but that lens cost me around $1600 when I got it several years ago. Now discontinued but apparently still repairable.

While your lenses factory warranty might have expired, the lens is quite new on the market, is still in production and popular. They typically only stop repairs on gear that has been out for over 10+ years since parts become the issue.
 
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Dean Wilson said:
My shirt fell down while I was wearing it and while my R5 handled it better than I, alas my RF 100-500 front element has sustained three chips and the threads on the front are damaged as well. Lens hood is a gonner as well. (I do not have Canon CarePAK, because I never damage my equipment!)

When I enter my information on Canon Repair website, I get:

NULL

Which tells be it is no longer supported.


Can anyone point me in a direction of getting the lens repaired?

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I wonder what was the end story on this lens.
 
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Knee replacement coming up in February 2025. It has put a damper on taking my camera for a walk.
Brain damage? No one can tell the difference.
 
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Dean Wilson said:
Knee replacement coming up in February 2025. It has put a damper on taking my camera for a walk.
Brain damage? No one can tell the difference.
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I had both done 8 years ago. This is the only key advise I'll give you which I give to everyone. If you want full mobility follow the stretching instructions from "day one" - no matter how much it hurts. The longer you wait the harder it gets to break up the scar tissue. I know people who waited too long and even after months of physio it still wasn't quite right. We have friends out west. His friends wife had hers done and did very little post surgery so she just sits in a chair all day. In Feb/March I was mountain hiking in Portugal.

Next is buy or rent an ice machine to cool the knee down. We purchased a bunch of those small camping freezer packs and just rotated them. I think 5 or 6 fit in the container. Easier than making ice every day and less expensive than buying it.

 
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Apparently this in not how a healthy knee cap normally looks like.

Along with moderate to severe tricompartmental arthritis. This translates that I need to buy more camera gear and I should start a "Go-Fun-Me" 🤣


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Dean Wilson said:
Apparently this in not how a healthy knee cap normally looks like.

Along with moderate to severe tricompartmental arthritis. This translates that I need to buy more camera gear and I should start a "Go-Fun-Me" 🤣


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For one moment I thought this was your head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :alien:
 
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