| Do not assume your camera body is bad...
Hello:
Several months ago, one of my slr/n's was pulled to a carpeted floor from about three feet. I switched to the back-up body and lens and did a test when I returned from the road trip. While shooting samples from the dropped and the non-dropped body, I discovered something interesting: both my dropped 28-70 Nikon lens and my non dropped, 85 PC Nikon were soft. Unfortunately, the almost new 85 PC was so out of wack that, after two months at Nikon, they just returned a brand new one to me in its place. I was told the one I submitted to them was monetarily unrepairable. Testing yesterday, on the back-up body showed a marked improvement of the brand new 85 PC lens over its predecessor.
What came to pass for me and others on this forum is that lens, even Nikon, are sometimes prone to bad manufacturing. That assuming chip failure, misalignment or camera breakage due to accidents is not always the reason for soft pictures. If you have only one body, try and check it against your backup or someone else's before jumping up and down and screaming to Kodak.
I guess lenses are getting complex enough now that manufacturing problems due occur more than Nikon, Canon, etc. are wanton to admit.
Paul  | 
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