{"id":294,"date":"2006-10-09T17:11:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T00:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/10\/09\/canon-lens-quirk\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T17:08:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T00:08:30","slug":"canon-lens-quirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/10\/09\/canon-lens-quirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon lens quirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Read this if you cannot insert your Canon lens in the camera<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Coming back from a little nature expedition today, I found I still had the 200mm L on the Canon 5D, so I went to replace it with the 24-105mm L which usually makes its home on the body.<\/p>\n<p>The only snag is that it refused to even fit into the breech of the bayonet on the body.  I checked for damage on the lens&#8217;s bayonet and there was none.  Hardly surprising as I had not dropped the lens.<\/p>\n<p>I checked against my other two lenses &#8211; the 200mm L and the non-L 15mm fisheye.  All three have a small Phillips head screw some 20 degrees counter-clockwise from the red mounting alignment dot, viewed with the bottom of the lens uppermost.  No other protrusions exist around the circumference.  So, it must be the screw.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/LScrew.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I located my smallest Philips head jeweler&#8217;s screwdriver and, sure enough, the screw was loose.  A moment&#8217;s work and all was well.<\/p>\n<p>So if you run into this snag, don&#8217;t panic.  And carry a Phillips screwdriver with you.  A tad frustrating on a $1300 lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this if you cannot insert your Canon lens in the camera. Coming back from a little nature expedition today, I found I still had the 200mm L on the Canon 5D, so I went to replace it with the 24-105mm L which usually makes its home on the body. The only snag is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/10\/09\/canon-lens-quirk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canon lens quirk<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canon-eos-5d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11896,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/11896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}