Dropped my 24-70

<p>It fell about 2 ft. to the stone floor yesterday (attached to my EOS 3). The 'front ring' got a little dented making it tricky for a filter to be threaded in (I rarely use filters anyway). I was pissed at myself as the lens hood was in my bag for some dumb reason.</p>

<p>Took it out for a focus test today and seems OK, whew!</p>

<p>Happy New Year to ALL! -Ken</p><div></div>

<p>Close call! I dropped my 85 f1.8 on a prebridal shoot last year and wasn't so fortunate :)</p>

<p>Did the same thing a few months back with my 100-400L. Was changing lenses at an airshow, put it in a belt bag and thought I had zipped it up. It fell out straight onto the concrete. Dinged up the finish a little, but otherwise it's fine. My daughter had her ears damaged a little by the string of expletives that escaped my mouth, though.</p>

<p>Phew Friend.<br>

Glad at least that the harm was minimized. A long while back I knocked over my tripod on which was perched my old A-1 / 28 f2 onto 2 inches of snow and hard ground. Fortunately no harm ensued. The kind assistant at the store upon checking my gear over suggested that I should learn to trust my equipment more. Back then cameras and lenses were less sophisticated. These days my heart would have missed a few beats.<br>

Best wishes for 2010</p>

<p>While I sure don't want to put my 24-70 to the test (like you accidentally did), it proves these lenses are tougher than one might think. Glad to hear yours passed relatively unscathed. If you like your 24-70 as much as I like mine, I'm sure that was a scary moment.</p>

<p>I know I'm "preaching to the choir" here, but I have two personal rules that have served me well over the years. 1) I never handle my camera without putting the strap around my neck. And 2) I never let the strap overhang anything when I put the camera down. I've witnessed too many disasters where implementation of one or the other of these two rules would have "saved the day". </p>

<p>Ken, glad to hear your lens is more or less OK. I dropped my 70-200 f4 L about the same distance on to concrete after which it stopped auto-focusing. That cost about 2/3 rds the price of a new lens to fix though most was paid through insurance. </p>

<p>Now if some one will drop the 24-105 L, to see if it will pass a similar test;-) glad every thing is fine.</p>

<p>I had a dream I dropped my 40D w/ 17-40mm L attached and the glass in the lens broke. Boy was I relieved when I woke up.</p>

<p>Ken... The 24-70 is one amazingly tough lens. I hit the floor so hard with this lens that I had to take a vise grip to the filter threads to pull out the metal. Amazingly it still seems to take sharp pictures. I also snapped off a pistol grip flash and broke the battery door on my 5d. Moral of the story is: after a certain age, stay off stools near stairs!<br>

Jeff</p>

<p>LOL! This was in the kitchen near a stool off of the small kitchen table.</p>

<p>Mellow out, relax, not so much of a rush -- where most madness stems. The lens seems fine now, no knocking on wood, shot all day yesterday with it.</p>

<p>Hope everyone's luck in this New Year is good!</p>

<p>I don't get it- how does one "drop" a $1300.00 lens?</p>

<p>And how is the 3 doing? (assuming that flower was shot on digital body). I've dropped a few Canons in my day, some fatal (AT-1 with 50, two times - both fatal. F1n - once, just a scratch) </p>

<p>I've had one drop, 5D with 24-70L fell from the bed to the carpet. The lens stopped working, and I discovered the mount on the rear of the lens was loose. <em>Very </em>loose. I gently tightened down the screws to no avail. Had to send the lens to Canon for servicing. The cost was reasonable, and got it back in a<em> </em>remarkably short amount of time. I am very pleased with Canon Service.</p>

<p>Brian, quite by accident I assure you. It's Very Rare something like this happens to me. Lie I said, it was on my EOS 3 -- heavy combo that body, PB-E2 grip and the lens. It was knocked by me and hit front-element first. I assume the 3's fine; I'll know in a week or so when I look at the prints.</p>

<p>You one LUCKY guy Ken! My camera bag was on the floor unzipped. The over generous fiancee wanted to help me by carrying the bag. Didn't managed to stop him. My 24-70 came off the bag and onto the hard tile floor. There was no scratch at all. But it was a vertical drop and exactly and the mounting cap. Bu the drop was only about 1 feet. Autofocus totally gone! Send to Canon and was told of microchip damaged. Cost me 150bucks.<br>

<strong>L LENS NO SO TOUGH AFTER ALL</strong></p>