OK, I had this problem after dropping mine as well. If I looked carefully, I noticed that the inner mechanism (the bit that comes out when you power up the camera) was uneven, sticking out a tiny bit on one side. In this case, you have to take it to a certified repairman to fix it for you, or buy a new one. Do NOT do the following:
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OK, I had this problem after dropping my 16/50 kit lens as well. If I looked carefully, I noticed that the inner mechanism (the bit that comes out when you power up the camera) was uneven, sticking out a tiny bit on one side. In this case, you have to take it to a certified repairman to fix it for you, or buy a new one. Do NOT do the following:
1) Take the lens off. You see those four silver screws? Leave them alone. Do not remove them, making sure to put them in a bowl or other container so you can keep track of them.
2) Removing the silver ring held on by those 4 screws is also a bad idea. It exposes the lens’s “guts”, plus 4 black screws. Don’t take those out either. You see the little ribbon cable attaching the silver ring to the circuit board? If that comes out it’s goodbye lens, so really oughtn’t you leave this to the professionals?
3) Once the black screws are out, you’re really hosed. The internals of the lens can be moved, and the central assembly can be gently unseated and guided back into place all the way around so it’s nice and level. Obviously, this is way in void of any warranty you ever had, but of course you won’t have done this, so it’s all quite moot.
4) If you were to screw everything back together and put it back onto the camera, you will no doubt discover it’s still totally broken, and will probably catch fire or something. And serves you right. I suppose there’s *just* a chance that it will work good as new, and only have taken you 15 minutes from beginning to end, but it’s much easier to pay someone more than the cost of the lens itself to do it for you. So I’d do that.
Anyway, that’s my terrible idea on how to (not) fix this error when the lens internals have been knocked off-kilter. If you ruin your camera and/or lens trying it, remember I told you multiple times not to do it so don’t come crying to me.
OK, I had this problem after dropping mine as well. If I looked carefully, I noticed that the inner mechanism (the bit that comes out when you power up the camera) was uneven, sticking out a tiny bit on one side. In this case, you have to take it to a certified repairman to fix it for you, or buy a new one. Do NOT do the following:
1) Take the lens off. You see those four silver screws? Leave them alone. Do not remove them, making sure to put them in a bowl or other container so you can keep track of them.
2) Removing the silver ring held on by those 4 screws is also a bad idea. It exposes the lens’s “guts”, plus 4 black screws. Don’t take those out either. You see the little ribbon cable attaching the silver ring to the circuit board? If that comes out it’s goodbye lens, so really oughtn’t you leave this to the professionals?
3) Once the black screws are out, you’re really hosed. The internals of the lens can be moved, and the central assembly can be gently unseated and guided back into place all the way around so it’s nice and level. Obviously, this is way in void of any warranty you ever had, but of course you won’t have done this, so it’s all quite moot.
4) If you were to screw everything back together and put it back onto the camera, you will no doubt discover it’s still totally broken, and will probably catch fire or something. And serves you right. I suppose there’s *just* a chance that it will work good as new, and only have taken you 15 minutes from beginning to end, but it’s much easier to pay someone more than the cost of the lens itself to do it for you. So I’d do that.
Anyway, that’s my terrible idea on how to (not) fix this error when the lens internals have been knocked off-kilter. If you ruin your camera and/or lens trying it, remember I told you multiple times not to do it so don’t come crying to me.