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Never dropped a lens in 25 years...until now...

I managed to drop the most poorly constructed plasticty, woobly, bottom of the barrel, lens that I have and the bloody thing still works. The lens cap somehow got squashed into the filter housing. Using a couple of high tech tools (kitchen knife *2) I managed to extract the lens cap. The most valuable part of the lens (the Fletchers 62 mm UV Filter) took the brunt of the force and survived intact. The rest of it works fine. I guess I'll have to drop from a higher height if I want to claim insurance..

Anyway I'm glad its survived. Its the longest lens I've got and it does a reasonable job.

shakey wrote:Anyway I'm glad its survived. Its the longest lens I've got and it does a reasonable job.

I think you're stretching it a bit on the "reasonable job" comment.

They should do drop tests for all lenses

Is that Nikkor glass?
Not long ago Onyx "threw" his 18-70 at the height of 1.5m on the asphalt surface at Bobin Head pinic day and it works like a champ after that incident.

Nikon gears required to do stress-tested and burn-ins prior to put it in good use

Grev wrote:I think you're stretching it a bit on the "reasonable job" comment.

Oh, THAT comes with caveats of course

Assuming:

- You get it at a good price (I bought mine from a forum member for $100)
- The lighting is good
- Your subject isn't moving very much
- There's no one around who is familiar with Nikkor lenses who can ridicule you

then it is champion value

shakey wrote: I guess I'll have to drop from a higher height if I want to claim insurance..

Just lend it to Wendell for a week.

Good call John. Good to hear the old 70-300G is robust and can handle a bit of punishment... I was considering it as my sacrifical rally lens on the weekend, but I'm still contemplating that.


Birdy - Did Chi really try to smash his kit lens or was it an accident ?

Alpha_7 wrote:
Birdy - Did Chi really try to smash his kit lens or was it an accident ?

Who knows?

i have actually used a 70-300g was pretty excited about it for about a week that i had it, actually ot it for $100 from a forum member
i had bought it for another person but in the meantime i used it and since it is made out of plastic it is great at absorbing vibration built pretty well for a bunch of plastic and glass, i was impressed wiht it, yesa behold it's power it's the best bang for buk lens you can get

anyway i dropped my 70-200 once, it fell form my open backpack onto the road and rolled down a few metres over snow, till this day it works a charm
now that's NIKON quality

wendellt wrote:
anyway i dropped my 70-200 once, it fell form my open backpack onto the road and rolled down a few metres over snow, till this day it works a charm
now that's NIKON quality

Confession day!!!!!

Behold the power of the 70-300 G

Amazing lens.

They're only built tough because Nikon users are a bunch of clumsy gits

DionM wrote:They're only built tough because Nikon users are a bunch of clumsy gits

well thems fightin' words

shakey (and droppy)

wendellt wrote:i have actually used a 70-300g was pretty excited about it for about a week that i had it, actually ot it for $100 from a forum member
i had bought it for another person but in the meantime i used it and since it is made out of plastic it is great at absorbing vibration built pretty well for a bunch of plastic and glass, i was impressed wiht it, yesa behold it's power it's the best bang for buk lens you can get

anyway i dropped my 70-200 once, it fell form my open backpack onto the road and rolled down a few metres over snow, till this day it works a charm
now that's NIKON quality

Oh my, nobody will lend you equipment now!!