Just a heads up for people so that nobody else has to go through the same hassle...
We took our kids to the zoo at the weekend so the camera came along too. I took son#1 to the toilet and hung my camera bag on the door handle so that I wasn't on the floor. He was just about done and I heard another child on the other side of the door, followed by a *thunk as my bag slid off the door handle that he tried.
It was all in my Thinktank Retrospective 30. Apparently the padding on the bottom is not quite thick enough to cushion a 60cm drop.
The damage?
One smashed B&W Kaesemann CPL, one B&W UV filter popped apart (screwed back together again now), two mashed lens caps and a scratched 70-200 f2.8L IS MkII.
The damage is all caused from the lens caps grips being pushed into the elements of the filters. Whether the lenses would have been damaged without filters is anybodies guess, but I've convinced myself that smashed filters is the lesser of two evils.
Everybody loves carnage so... :
Unfortunately, when I removed it to check the 70-200 for damage, a bit of glass stuck between the filter and the lens front element has scratched the lens.
I'm insured, so will see what the company says when I give them a call. Filter replacement should be straightforward, but removing the scratch from the front of the 70-200 is not so... It doesn't affect photos, but it will affect the resale value and will bug the hell out of me every time I see it.
So, lesson learned, don't hang camera bags on door handles, put more padding in the bottom of my camera bag, don't leave filters on lenses unnecessarily and store lenses with the base cap down rather than the front element.
We took our kids to the zoo at the weekend so the camera came along too. I took son#1 to the toilet and hung my camera bag on the door handle so that I wasn't on the floor. He was just about done and I heard another child on the other side of the door, followed by a *thunk as my bag slid off the door handle that he tried.
It was all in my Thinktank Retrospective 30. Apparently the padding on the bottom is not quite thick enough to cushion a 60cm drop.
The damage?
One smashed B&W Kaesemann CPL, one B&W UV filter popped apart (screwed back together again now), two mashed lens caps and a scratched 70-200 f2.8L IS MkII.
The damage is all caused from the lens caps grips being pushed into the elements of the filters. Whether the lenses would have been damaged without filters is anybodies guess, but I've convinced myself that smashed filters is the lesser of two evils.
Everybody loves carnage so... :
Unfortunately, when I removed it to check the 70-200 for damage, a bit of glass stuck between the filter and the lens front element has scratched the lens.
I'm insured, so will see what the company says when I give them a call. Filter replacement should be straightforward, but removing the scratch from the front of the 70-200 is not so... It doesn't affect photos, but it will affect the resale value and will bug the hell out of me every time I see it.
So, lesson learned, don't hang camera bags on door handles, put more padding in the bottom of my camera bag, don't leave filters on lenses unnecessarily and store lenses with the base cap down rather than the front element.
