Bouncing a Lens

[Crashcat]

Originally Posted by Mad Aussie
Anyone care to try this with a Nikon, Pentax, Sony and Olympus lens and let me know how it goes please?

I did, well kind of but my lens was still attached to the Camera

Had just taken my camera off my neck to put it back in the bag, when a bicycle went by and snagged the strap. So not only did the lens go flying my camera went flying as well. The camera and lens fell about 3 feet and ended up about 15 feet from where I was standing, after it hit the ground and rolled along the pavement.
Ran over and picked it up expecting the worse. First I looked at the body and len that was still attach and it looked OK. Actually after, when I had a chance to really inspect it I can find only very minimal scuff marks to the point you have to really inspect it closely to find them. I fingered for sure when I went to take a picture with it I would quickly discover what damage had been done. Place the camera to my eye pressed the shutter button and..... "Click" np auto focused and took the picture. I have taken 1000's of pics since with no problems.

Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 50MM F/1.4G

So I guess we can place a check mark in the "Anyone care to try this with a Nikon" column

[Gem]

Wow, these things are really built to last, eh? I would have thought for sure there would have been some performance damage!

[Mad Aussie]

So I'm not the only moron here

Shame your insurance didn't cover your lens Kat. We specifically checked that ours did cover 'stupidity'

We'll at least we know that Nikkor/Nikon and Canon lenses will take a lickin and keep on tickin

[Mad Aussie]

Shot a few photos with lens this morning (see the Monthly Assignment) and all seems well.