I learnt a valuable (and nearly very expensive) lesson this morning!

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And that lesson is always use a lens hood!

I had the displeasure of watching my camera head for the ground lens (24-70) first! I was briefly distracted while adjusting the camera and tripod, which left it with no supporting leg to the front. Cue one large gust of wind, and the whole thing tipped(to me in slow motion), landing lens first on a rocky beach.

Thankfully the hood took the impact, and broke pushing it back up the lens body, but this luckily kept the front element from impacting, and luckily it had no damage at all!

I think had it been a harder fall that I might not have been so lucky. Ironically this was the first time I had been out landscaping with this lens ,and I had only added it to my insurance last night! I'm not sure how they would have reacted to a phone call less than 24 hours later!
 
that is lucky!!!

my luck would have had it smash into multiple pieces lol
 
Close call, not a lens you want to damage!
 
Hey! We could make a club!
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http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=442133

New hood £34...
 
That is exactly why I always use a lens hood, with no deterioration of image quality. During mountaineering trips I have battered my lens hood many times.
 
So tripods have 3 legs, that's one to remember! :D

Seriously, glad that the damage was so small. I always use a lens hood, silly not to really.
 
Did the Skylight survive?

I dropped a parfocal broadcast lens like that once. Never since.
 
Jan K. said:
Hey! We could make a club!
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=442133

New hood £34...
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I actually was talking about cheap hoods with a friend last week, and previously would always have gone for a cheap knock off, but after today i've ordered a genuine replacement. I know the non oem ones will look the same but I'm not sure how one would have handled today's impact.
 
I get lazy at times because some of my lenses won't fit neat in the bag with hoods on. And I hate reversing them. But stories like this remind me not to be such a lazy sod, and always bring the hoods with. Just NEVER use them reversed, I hate people that do that, pointless.
 
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