20 Most Recent Nikon Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED AF-S DX (silver) Lens - Page 2 Questions & Answers

Factory defect. Send it back

If you want to do the replacement yourself, you can order the part from
http://uscamera.com/1c999-090.htm

Otherwise leave the repair job to a qualified professional.

Assuming this is on a d40/d40x or similar camera without a motor in the body. What is happening is your lenses motor is wearing out and is no longer as functional as it once was.

Is the manual focus ring not turning? If not, you're going to need to send it in for repair, shop around for local shops as they offer competitive prices. If your lens is still under warranty you can send it into Nikon, here is their contact info for repairs:
http://www.nikonusa.com/Service-And-Support/Service-And-Repair.page
Phone: 1-310-414-8107
Fax: 1-310-322-6979
7am - 3pm PST Mon - Fri
East of the Mississippi River:
Nikon Inc. Photo & Digital Service
Nikon Inc. Factory Service
1300 Walt Whitman Road
Melville, NY 11747
West of the Mississippi River:
Nikon Inc. Photo & Digital Service
Nikon Inc. Factory Service
841 Apollo Street, Suite 100
El Segundo, CA 90245-4721

Hi,

Giving the lens your using and depending on the shooting mode your in. I assume your shooting in a low light situation. The lens you have is not good for low light shooting because the F-stop is only 3.5 at widest, so minimal light gets in so the camera decides what speed to set it at to close the shutter. for example shooting in the school gym or church, the camera speed will be 1/20 second or even up to 1/2 second to get enough lighting into the sensor so the image is properly expose but for you to have a sharp image you will need to shoot on a tripod.

Without tripod and just handheld will create blurry images. I would suggest you bump up the ISO setting to minimum to 3200 or higher that way the camera speed will be higher and reduce handheld shakes that will create blurry images. But remember, increase ISO will increase in image grain.

That is why I suggest you invest into a 17-50mm F2.8 lens for low-lighting or 50mm f1.8 lens.

I hope this helps

Jet

Wow I appreciate your spirit but this is probably a loosing battle. Even if there was a repair manual you would still need the tools. This is a $150.00 - $200.00 lens. I'd probably elect to buy a new one and sell the broken one on EBAY for parts or try to take it apart just to satisfy my curiosity. Sounds like you like adventure.

Good Luck!

52mm

these lenses are made with mostly plastic parts to reduce cost. if the lens was bumped on the front it is common to break the cams that move the lens in and out, unfortunately it is more cost to repair versus replace. there should be nothing "loose" inside the lens

hi there,

the motor inside your lens might have been broken,
was it fell down or hit something before?

if it`s still in warranty, you can claim it to Nikon Service Center

hope this post will help

It sounds like you had the lens set for manual focus when you took the A / M switch plate off. If this was the case then when you but it back together the little arm behind the plate is on the wrong side of a moving gear assembly.

To fix, remove the auto/manual focus switch plate from the camera (just the one screw not the ribbon beneath) Push the switch over to A. Hook the bottom of the plate back to the lens and put the screw back in. Done!

If you are experienced or brave enough, dismantle the lens from the rear until you can recover the loose piece. You will probably find that the rear cluster of lenses has fallen off the other end of the helical cam tracks on which it travels. This happens because the two steel strips have got bent. They should run exactly parallel to the axis of the tube. Remove the two strips (4 screws) and straighten them carefully. Reassembling this lot is difficult. Engage the lens cluster on its tracks--it will fit 3 ways and only one is correct. The loose piece is a light baffle which engages with the back of the lens cluster and again will fit two wrong ways and one correct. It has a projecting lug which travels down a groove in the tube. When I had reassembled mine it still felt stiff and about to seize again and I am sure that excessive friction causes so much force that the steel strips bend and lead to it all falling to pieces. I greased the moving parts with silicone grease (from a plumbers merchant!) --most other lubricants either harden up or damage the plastic. I managed to break the wires to the auto-manual switch but they were easily resoldered. The lens now zooms smoothly and takes good pictures. But take care--it is easy to create more faults as you go.

DON'T try it yourself. There are over 100 precision parts inside - and a professional that has experience should be entrusted with this repair.

Any local camera dealer can tear it down and give you a repair estimate.

Thanks!!

Sorry, but you won't find one in the public domain. The lens is a current model and the information you need is strictly copyright and supplied only to Nikon Authorised Repair centres.

As it's a budget lens model it's not really been designed with repairs in mind anyway. Nikon repair centres will often simply exchange it for all but the simplest of faults if there's a warranty claim as labour and parts costs for more serious faults exceed the cost of a replacement lens. So you're on your own with this one, but if it's the usual broken plastic lens mount then it's a fairly straightforward repair as long as you're methodical and use the right tools. Obtaining the spare mounting can be difficult though outside of the official supply chain.

Please take a moment to rate my answer, and in doing so please bear in mind that I'm not responsible for Nikon's decision to strictly control the availability of the information you asked for.

I work as a lens repair technician.
Maybe i can help you or give you a little bit of info
about what is wrong with your lens.
It looks like it is af-s dx nikkor 18-55 type l lens to me.
You mentioned frozen. What is the meaning of frozen?
does it mean it is not shooting in 55mm? or af does not work at all?
let me know..!!!

Do you have a lens collimator and other equipment necessary to make sure the lens elements are aligned properly when you put it back together? If not, DO NOT try to take the lens apart yourself, but have it fixed by a trained professional.

You're going to have to disassemble the lens and reseat the ring. This is never easy, since there is a precise way all the lenses and focusing mechanisms have to be reseated exactly right, and there is the issue of dirt or dust getting into the lens when you attempt to disassemble it and try to fix it. I wouldn't think the average person could successfully repair this lens, but a skillful technician of sorts may be able to. It's going to be hard to find a technical procedure for this, since only repair facilities usually do this. My suggestion would be to take it in to a reputable repair shop and see what they think. Often the cost of labor to repair a simple thing like this can exceed replacement cost, so make sure you get an estimate before considering having it fixed. If the repair shop wants too much, you might opt to try it yourself. Just make sure you have a set of jeweler's screwdrivers, and make a diagram of each screw and location, as you go, and use extreme care not to touch the lens surfaces any more than you have to. You might get lucky and get it working. Good luck, and hope this helps.

I have the same problem - the plastic bayonet lugs are the weak point on the lens assembly, but better that then breaking the camera body mating ring. I've dissasembled the rear of the lens and will try to reglue the two split lugs with cyanoacrylate glue. Be very careful not to mix up the 3 different types of screws, avoid damage to the multi-contact plate ribbon cable, and to not to loose the backfocus shims! Cheers.

I think something is wrong in your camera settings you just need to fix your settings or if that is not the problem you can et it repaired goodluck:) and please rate this solution...

Yes, it's possible. Do you have a lens collimator and other equipment needed to make sure the lens elements are aligned properly when you put it back together? If not, I strongly suggest you leave the job to a properly-trained professional technician.

The D5000 is not a professional camera, it's very much a low-end introductory consumer grade digital SLR aimed at first timers. It's a fine camera, but wouldn't last more than a few days at best in professional use.

The camera usually comes bundled with a "kit" lens, such as the 18-55mm. Like the camera, it's a cheap and cheerful model which is really intended just to get you started. It costs very little to make, and like the camera body it's not designed with longevity, servicing or repairs in mind.

But to answer your question, yes, you can buy the D5000 as a body only option without the kit lens and then add on whichever lens you prefer at extra cost. The 18-105mm has a longer zoom range so has more flexibility than the 18-55mm, but once again it's very much a consumer grade lens. You don't get anything for nothing, so in return for the additional zoom range in a lens which is of a similar grade to the kit lens you get poorer image quality and really noticeable barrel distortion at the wide angle (18mm) setting and pronounced pin cushion distortion at anywhere above around 24mm (click here). You can't avoid these distortions entirely as all zooms are a compromise, but the kit lens suffers far less than the 18-105mm and also has a better all-round image quality (click here). Again, not to professional standards, but more than adequate for almost all amateur users. To be fair, although the 18-105mm appears to be based on an older design and is totally unacceptable for any professional use, it also is perfectly adequate for most amateurs and is relatively good value at the comparatively low price it can be purchased for, but the Nikkor AF-S 55-200mm f/4-5.6 G ED DX is by far a better lens altogether and just happens to have very low image distortion across the zoom range. If you can get one, it's the ideal companion to the kit lens. Best of all, it's actually cheaper than the one you propose getting (click here and here for comparison)and offers a much more useful telephoto range.

Please feel free to ask any questions if I've failed to answer your question in any way, otherwise, please take a moment to rate my answer.