Servicing for an EOS 7D

[AClownsPocket]

My wife's camera has a mark on the lense and its showing on every photo. She'd like to get it professionally serviced and cleaned for the summer. Can anyone recommend anywhere to get this done. Don't mind sending it off if needed, but if anyone knows somewhere in the North East (Teesside area), that would work better.

Cheers

ACP

[LongQ]

AClownsPocket said:

My wife's camera has a mark on the lense and its showing on every photo. She'd like to get it professionally serviced and cleaned for the summer. Can anyone recommend anywhere to get this done. Don't mind sending it off if needed, but if anyone knows somewhere in the North East (Teesside area), that would work better.

Cheers

ACP

A mark on the lens that would always show would be a rare thing.

More likely to be something on the sensor and usually they can be cleaned by a reasonably competent person in a propercamera store. You could do it yourself but you would probably need a few things to do it and many people would be disinclined to attempt it preferring to rely on someone with relevant experience.

The risk is that getting it wrong may cause greater problems with the sensor and so lead to higher costs than expected and perhaps lack of camera for the holiday.

[Colin RedGriff]

I can recommend Colchester Camera Repairs. They did a great job on fixing my 100-400 L lens when the focus/zoom ring got damaged.

http://camera-repair.co.uk

Give them a call they may be able to advise if it is the lens or sensor dirt.

[LongQ]

W/r to a possible mark on the lens ... this may be of interest.

http://petapixel.com/2015/06/10/we-found-a-fly-ins...


I have seen photos taken with a very badly cracked lens - I mean seriously trashed - and the main effect was not so much a mark as a general deterioration in image quality as the light bounced around inside the edges of the glass. Foggy would have been one descriptive word for most of it.