Out of the hundreds if not thousands of copies of this lens, I had to get one that has the problem. Nikon 24-70 f2.8 is apparently very prone to binding zoom ring problem. It was said that because some of the parts are made with plastic, it is not as robust as they use to make these type of lenses.
You would think that a lens that expensive wouldn't have any cheap parts in it. I guess even Nikon needs to cut back.
I brought my lens in to a local camera repair shop, which by the way is a certified Nikon repair center, about two weeks ago. Pretty cool that I don't have to ship it anywhere. At first, I had a problem with convincing the person on the front desk that it has 5 year warranty from Nikon. Long story short, they took it in, and called me the next day that it's going to Nikon Service Center. They don't have the parts apparently. 10 business day turn around they said. Yikes, I need that lens.
Well, I let them send it in anyways, nothing I can do. I didn't want to let it stay 'broken'. It still took good pictures, just annoying having the ring snags at some spots.
Guess what, I got a call yesterday morning from the shop and they have it back from Nikon already. Now, I'm just waiting to use it again this weekend after using my 50mm 1.8 for the last two weeks. Those pictures will come up soon here.
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