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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D200freak" data-source="post: 517078" data-attributes="member: 41018">If you have decent mechanical skills and like to take things apart and fix them,  there's no limit to what you can potentially fix.   Add good electronic skills to the list and you can fix even more.  I've kind of started up a new hobby, fixing expensive lenses that are broken.  My 14-24mm F/2.8 is one of my repair jobs,  and so is my 80-400mm VR lens.    These were both lenses that Nikon quoted MORE than a thousand dollars to fix.  I'm not going to tell everybody who knows which end of a screwdriver to use as a prybar that he should start fixing his own lenses,  but it's not such a mystery and black art as Nikon would like you to think it is.   The mechanisms are precise, but not particularly complicated.</blockquote>