chasrich wrote: Just to be safe - I only buy broken lenses. The odds of breaking a lens twice goes way up! Are you selling any of your broken lenses? I pay in broken US Dollars...
icepics wrote: Only one, after dropping it two different times on the concrete floor at a hockey rink. After the second time it was OK til the next winter when I was focusing and felt something give and everything went out of focus. It was an old lens that had seen a lot of use so was more of a sentimental loss than a financial one.
Then after I got a cheapie replacement at a camera swap, sometime later the camera did a nosedive (or lens dive?) in between a seat and a concrete wall at another arena... jammed into the camera which is still usable (barely) but has gone into retirement til I get around to maybe some repair someday.
Have had a flying hockey puck bounce off it, that didn't faze it!
icepics wrote: I managed to do the same type thing in a canoe, etc. etc. But I've spent hours in hockey rinks so I guess those are the odds. Over the years I dinged up the lens so much the built in lens hood was permanently jammed (which I liked better, the hood quit sliding in and out so that took care of that nicely!)
I've had lens caps pop off and disappear too (because they wouldn't stay on the dented lens hood ). I definitely got my money's worth out of that camera and lens.
fbicking wrote: None at this point but only been shooting 18 months. Hoping to never post a lose but I know one will come at some point.
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