The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
The article discusses the repair process of a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 lens. The author shares their experience of purchasing the lens and the steps taken to diagnose and repair it. Tools and techniques for disassembly and inspection are also detailed.
- ▪The author restricts themselves from purchasing functioning lenses to manage their camera gear collection.
- ▪Upon inspection, the lens showed no mechanical flaws but had electrical issues preventing user input.
- ▪The repair process involves standard tools and careful handling of delicate components like the flex cable.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Front Page) |
| Canonical URL | https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html |
| Publication time | Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:33:26 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-06T00:47:30.728Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-06T00:47:30.728Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | c4ANEVzPEVBw |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair & Analysis[05.12.24] I have a camera gear collection problem and as part of my personal 12 step plan, I restrict myself from purchasing functioning lenses. This sounds illogical, and it frankly is, but it's very hard for me to resist heavily discounted lenses. To keep my hat, I tend to only bid on lenses that are less than 1/4 of the going used sale prices and have little to no mechanical damage. In this case I've been eyeing the recently produced sigma I-series lenses that feature mostly aluminum construction. A broken 45mm f/2.8 lens popped up on ebay in January for a song and a dance, and I simply could not resist.
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