Well.......DadBlastedPackaFlatteraps !!!!!
It slipped from my grip and fell on it's face.
I am pretty sure the lens cap and filter saved the glass.
Can this be fixed?
Well, I have calmed down and had another look.
Seems like only the Kenko ring is bent. Tried to get it off by hand with a couple twists but it must be wedged into the threads. Nothing else looks damaged.
If it's just the filter that's destroyed, I was able to VERY carefully cut the filter ring with a dremel tool or a small hacksaw type thing. Cover the glass, of course, shove a rag in there or something like that, but if you are able to get the ring cut it will come off very easily.
A buddy of mine dropped his nikon 70-200 and the same damage occurred. It was as good as new once I got the filter off.
gheller,
I don't always have the hood on. In this case it was just a fumble. The lens cover and the filter dampened the impact. From what I can see, there are no marks on the front element.
Still pretty bummed.
Just fix it in Photoshop Sorry, I just couldn't resist that. I would send it in to CPS and definitely make a point to always have the lens hood on. Good Luck.
This is why I always have the hood on - if I don't actually want to use the hood then I put it on reversed. My hood is scratched as hell, my lens not at all.
My Nikon 70-200 fell out of my bag and landed on the lens mount/tripod collar. It's at Nikon being repaired now. Nikon's base charge for "impact damage" is $600 <sigh>
I was at an a event years ago and kneeled down to pet a dog and not knowing I stepped on the sling and when I stood up, the camera went to the ground and broke the lens off the camera...
I was shooting a wake board competition last Saturday for a client who develops wake parks. A photographer walked by me lamenting the loss of a Nikon 50 mm lens a few minutes before. He said he thought it fell in the lake when he bent over for something. I told him that I was sorry for his loss, then thought about the two Halliburton cases of Blad gear I sunk in Lake Ray Hubbard during a Regatta 20 years ago. It can always be worse!
Same thing happened to me a while ago, lens and camera fell off the top of the car, while I was driving away (long story). A trip to Canon fixed it, turns out just the filter ring was bent and it was perfectly fine.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist that. I would send it in to CPS and definitely make a point to always have the lens hood on. Good Luck.