Beyond economic repair

[ewx]

How do you decide when something is beyond economic repair? A while back I bought a rather nice lens second-hand for £400; new it would cost £690 (maybe a bit less depending how much time I spent shopping around). Since then the AF motor has failed and I've now put it in for an estimate to repair it.

My current thinking is that £200 seems a sensible limit (being half what I actually paid for it and still keeping my total expenditure less than having bought it brand new in the first place). Any other views?

Comments

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

That sounds reasonable; when I end up with a wonky camera, I'll (intend to) have it repaired if it'll still cost less than buying a working example. My EOS RT was repaired for approximately the same as the purchase price, and although this wasn't the original plan (it was sold as working) I still paid less than I'd find one from, say, AP's advertisers. On the other hand, I haven't bothered doing anything with the EF-M because I could probably get a new one for less than the cost of repair.