How fragile is your Canon lense

mdebets · 03-07-2010 3:22pm #1

Warning: Don't watch if you are squeamish towards your lenses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzOLbMPe0u8

Scamp- · 03-07-2010 4:00pm

So it didn't break... but he still wrecked a lense!

Ghost Train · 03-07-2010 4:06pm

another canon lens abused

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es8BkbMQoIE

Thecageyone · 03-07-2010 4:07pm

Obviously the lens was already knackered? Or he' an idiot ... but it is interesting. As you see some people panic if their lens touches anything - even slightly.

Kintarō Hattori · 03-07-2010 5:45pm

Ghost Train wrote: »

another canon lens abused

From the video:

We are going to drop it and see if you will break this lens first time you drop it. If it's worth spending $100 on it or if you is basically throwing $100 down the toilet.

Oooh that's annoying. Most people try not to drop/scratch/bump their lens. If I did drop a lens I'd expect it to break and wouldn't consider it 'money down the toilet'. Grrr.

Crispin · 03-07-2010 5:48pm

Ok so what did we learn here?

Small diameter thick glass doesn't break that easy but lens now scratched to f*ck.

Thecageyone · 03-07-2010 6:05pm

We learned it's better to hit a 50mm with a hammer than drop it, I guess

The glass didn't scratch in first clip until he took the claw to it. It had endured a good few hammer whacks up to that.

Ghost Train · 03-07-2010 7:14pm

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

From the video:

Oooh that's annoying. Most people try not to drop/scratch/bump their lens. If I did drop a lens I'd expect it to break and wouldn't consider it 'money down the toilet'. Grrr.

yes it's a bit silly really

bit like the "will it blend show"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY8MqWBIHvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLe0T1rUeDA

DSLR etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FWv21EgRZU

stcstc · 03-07-2010 8:36pm

most of those scratched wouldnt even be visible

although there would more than likely be issues with flaring etc

magicbastarder · 03-07-2010 8:43pm

i would suspect the sort of impact they gave the lens with a hammer wouldn't be too common compared to dropping the lens.

i've done damage to kit twice - i fell while carrying my OM2SP (stood on a rock which rolled away under my foot), and bent the baseplate, but the camera still works fine and is light-tight, and another time i dropped my lovely OM zuiko 90mm F2 macro lens (phenomenal lens) and flat-spotted the barrel slightly, so it wouldn't focus to infinity. €45 to repair, i was lucky.

Thecageyone · 04-07-2010 12:20am

Where did you get it repaired? I have a zoom lens with busted AF. Though it works alright in MF.

magicbastarder · 04-07-2010 12:22am

a chap called clive mcdonald. used to be the official hasselblad repair guy for ireland. he's based out artane direction now.

Thecageyone · 04-07-2010 12:41am

Ah righty. My duffed lens might end up not being worth fixing anyhow, from what I've read about them online. Common fault, the motor on Sony dslrs is too powerful for that particular lens and often busts them. Weird though.

I'd prefer to actually get the SSS [body IS on Sony dslr] fixed on the camera.

OT: the only time I can think my lenses would possibly get a good knock would be if I had the strap on my shoulder, maybe going through an archway/doorway/getting over a wall ... with the lens cap off. It could swing and knock off ... something or other. But that would be rare/stupid of me anyway.

No scratches on my lenses at least, to date.

How fragile is your Canon lense

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