Zeiss Just Made Lens Repairs Way Less of a Headache—Here's What You Need to Know

Zeiss Just Made Lens Repairs Way Less of a Headache—Here's What You Need to Know

Zeiss Just Made Lens Repairs Way Less of a Headache—Here’s What You Need to Know I’ll be straight with you: before September 1st, getting a Zeiss lens repaired in North America was a bureaucratic nightmare. You’d contact Zeiss, get bounced to an authorized service center, wait weeks, and pray someone actually knew how to handle your particular glass—especially if it was vintage. Now? KEH Camera is the official Zeiss repair partner for both the US and Canada.

What a $2,300 Lens Repair Taught Me About Protecting Every Lens You Own

What a $2,300 Lens Repair Taught Me About Protecting Every Lens You Own

I track every lens I’ve ever tested in a spreadsheet. Budget primes, kit zooms, third-party glass — I’ve run hundreds of dollars of gear through its paces specifically to figure out what’s worth your money and what’s marketing. So when a photographer drops a $2,300 Sony 16-35mm f/2.8 GM and then fixes it for $100 using a spare part he guessed at online, that gets my attention fast. Not because I’ll ever drop two grand on a single lens without serious hand-wringing, but because the repair logic applies to every piece of glass you own, regardless of what you paid for it.