Don't click if you are squeamish about blood: http://pics.livejournal.com/schlake/pic/000rdws3/
The wound is from the camera transfering an impact the lens received. A non-L lens would have been broken long before now (I take these kinds hits a couple of times a month). The lens hood on my 24-70 f/2.8 L is impressively strong, and does a fabulous job keeping the lens itself from getting hit, and of transfering kinetic energy down the lens and into the camera where it safely, if painfully, dissappates into my forehead or eyeball. I haven't actually broken a filter way, but there is no way I'd shoot without a filter, and I wouldn't want to use an expensive filter. The picture venue is mixed martials arts cagefighting. I think this is very much a case where the optical quality of the L lens is of secondary importance. I bought the 24-70 f/2.8 L just for these pictures, but the motivating factor was the 24-70 f/2.8. I shoot these pictures at ISO 3200 in dark rooms and often underexpose just to keep the motion blur out. Optical quality, and even white balance in the jpeg, are of secondary importance. The ability of the L lens to "take a hit" is an added bonus. -- void *(*(*schlake(void *))[])(void *); * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
