Quote Originally Posted by HDNitehawk View Post
But, for that price I think I would get it back and use it till it died. A new one is not much more.
ditto, you can get them for $1800, probably even as low as $1500 second-hand, I wouldn't be paying that much to fix one.
(maybe even try getting another second-hand broken one, maybe with smashed elements but otherwise decent housing, for a few bucks and doing a lens-transplant?)