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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 638872" data-attributes="member: 13090">I'm not sure if I posted about this little mishap or not, now that you mention it... Executive Summary: I'm getting some awesome shots one evening at an open-air farmers-market sort of thing when the zoom ring on my Big Tam goes nutty on me. I'm feeling hard &quot;clicks&quot; and it's hitching really bad as I turn it, both to and fro. Applying some elbow grease pops the zoom ring past the hitchiness but it comes right back after a few more turns and the hitches are becoming more and more like &quot;hard stops&quot;. I decide to simply leave it be and finish the night pretending it's a four-pound tele. But, it's a Tamron... Six-year warranty. Yeah!! So off it goes, cross country, for repair. Come to find out, Tamron's standard repair policy is to turn things around in three days (are you listening, Nikon??), which is exactly what they did. The zoom ring was fixed (no charge) and it was shipped back FedEx 3-Day (also at no charge). Still, five days to get from San Diego to Cormack (sp?), New York; three days in the shop, and three days to come home... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 638872, member: 13090"] I'm not sure if I posted about this little mishap or not, now that you mention it... [B]Executive Summary:[/B] I'm getting some awesome shots one evening at an open-air farmers-market sort of thing when the zoom ring on my Big Tam goes nutty on me. I'm feeling hard "clicks" and it's hitching really bad as I turn it, both to and fro. Applying some elbow grease pops the zoom ring past the hitchiness but it comes right back after a few more turns and the hitches are becoming more and more like "hard stops". I decide to simply leave it be and finish the night pretending it's a four-pound tele. But, it's a Tamron... Six-year warranty. Yeah!! So off it goes, cross country, for repair. Come to find out, Tamron's standard repair policy is to turn things around in three days (are you listening, Nikon??), which is exactly what they did. The zoom ring was fixed (no charge) and it was shipped back FedEx 3-Day (also at no charge). Still, five days to get from San Diego to Cormack (sp?), New York; three days in the shop, and three days to come home... :( [/QUOTE]

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