When the FA70-200 fell , with camera still in hand, filter or not, it would not have helped in this case, as the focus barrell bent.
I generally do not use filters, but have on on my Nikon 70-200VR Dave On 4/23/07, wendy beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/21/07, Amita Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People tend to get into religious wars about this sort of thing. I'm a > > firm believer in filtering my lenses, but I think I'm the only person > > on the list who's ever dropped a camera on its front and had the UV > > filter shatter and the lens remain ok. :) > > You're not :-) > I've dropped a camera with a (think it was 300mm/f4.5) lens and had > the filter shatter. The lens was ok. > I've also dropped the 20d with 70-200/f2.8. No filter, no damage to > lens apart from crack on the lens hood and a dent on the edge of the > lens cap. lens hood was reversed at the time. > Doesn't prove anything really except I'm clumsy :-) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
