{"id":112,"date":"2004-08-27T21:28:04","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T02:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2004-08-27T21:28:04","modified_gmt":"2004-08-28T02:28:04","slug":"lens-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Lens return…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a paraphrased, but accurate, account of a conversation I had earlier in the week.<\/i><\/p>\n

Me<\/i> (talking to KEH.com<\/a> a new\/used online photo supply store):<\/i> I bought a used lens earlier this week and they’re a few things wrong with it. I’d like to return it…
\nKEH Rep:<\/i> [Looks up my account.] What’s wrong with it?
\nMe:<\/i> Well, the mount is pretty worn, so I can get my camera to error by twisting or putting load on the lens. It works ok, unless you twist the lens.
\nKEH Rep:<\/i> Well, there are a couple of things that can cause that… [asks some questions about my camera, etc]… what else is wrong with it?
\nMe:<\/i> Well, there’s a bug in the lens.
\nKEH Rep:<\/i> A bug? What sort of bug?
\nMe:<\/i> Well, like a big gnat stuck to one of the inner elements. It wasn’t there when the lens arrived, but it showed up after I drove home, I think it shook lose from the inside while I was driving, but now it’s stuck on one of the inner elements…
\nKEH Rep:<\/i> You can tell it’s a bug?
\nMe:<\/i> Yeah, it’s pretty big, and it’s stuck right in the middle of the glass.
\nKEH Rep:<\/i> And it’s inside the glass?
\nMe:<\/i> Yeah. And the third thing is that the lens just doesn’t seem to take very sharp pictures. I think it’s mostly front-focusing, but they’re just generally soft as well.
\nKEH Rep:<\/i> Wow, I’ve never heard of a bug before, that’s a new one for me.
\nMe:<\/i> Yeah, me too.
\nKEH Rep:<\/i> Go ahead and send it back, I’ve put these notes in your file. Sorry about that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nWhat have I learned? KEH is a good place, with nice folks on the phone (this is my second, totally painless, return to them). And always shake any used gear around a bit to see if anything falls out… or, sometimes more importantly, doesn’t fall out! Oh yeah, and I should have taken a picture of the bug \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is a paraphrased, but accurate, account of a conversation I had earlier in the week. Me (talking to KEH.com a new\/used online photo supply store): I bought a used lens earlier this week and they’re a few things wrong with it. I’d like to return it… KEH Rep: [Looks up my account.] What’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pointless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}