At this past weekend's wedding, I stepped up on a retaining wall for a better vantage point over the bride and groom.... My 24-70 lens popped up and out of my pouch on my belt and came crashing down on the concrete from about 5 feet up. Thank god I had the cap on the mount, seems like the lens survived. Zooming seems a little sticky at 24mm now though. I used it for the rest of the day and it worked ok. Anybody think I should send it in for calibration? Any thoughts?

Seems prudent to me to send it in without waiting for it to fail. If it was damaged, you don't want it to fail at the wrong time later----or at least I wouldn't.......

It always amazes me how cheap it is to get a lens repaired.

send it in now....

off topic...was this that little retaining wall that surrounds the altar? just curious

why risk losing future images? that lens needs to go in for repair. i dropped a 24-70 hours after i had gotten it and it was only a few hundred to repair.

Mitchel107, no it was actually in front of the mansion right after the ceremony... I continued using the lens for the rest of the day without incident. The cap that covers the mount had a nice crease in it, so it took the brunt of the force. Not a mark on the lens, but like rockit said, I don't want to risk losing any future images. Thanks guys, I think I'll be sending it in... Better safe than sorry.