poor expensive lens
Last summer I switched lenses in the middle of a shoot and put my 17-40mm L series lens inside my camera bag that was lying on a park bench. I though that I had done up the zippers but when I picked up the bag my favorite lens rolled out of the top, bounce off of the bench and landed glass down on the sidewalk. When I reached down and picked it up and all I heard was the sound of glass... Broken glass!
When I popped off the lens cap there was nothing but shattered glass. I turned it upside down over a garbage pail and dumped out the broken stuff and then I saw that it was just my UV filter that had broken.
It took about an hour of cleaning but after I got all the glass out of it, the lens worked like new. I still feel that ugly feeling in the bottom of my stomach everytime I think of it but I replaced the UV filter before using that lens again and it never leaves the lens.
Please everyone, get those lenses protected. Even the most expensive filter is cheaper than replacing a lens.
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