Frantz Dantzler
Leading Member
Over the weekend I'm shooting our son's graduation events in Bloomington, Indiana so I took my S2, a few lenses and the SB 28DX and a couple of MDs. All went well, shot about 300 frames (great battery life!) and at the end of the last party I attended, all was well.
I left the party to go back to the hotel about 1 AM with the S2, the 17/35 and SB28 attached and as I reached the bottom of a poorly-lit outside staircase, I swore there were no steps remaining before the concrete sidewalk...or maybe it was one too many Guinness's, I don't know, but there was another step that didn't get recorded in my brain and before I knew it I was crashing my 6' 7" frame along with my S2 onto the concrete. Many expletives were uttered and then I realized that the SB28 was no longer attached to the S2, with its batteries scattered all around. I never let go of the S2, so it was still attached to my hand.
Bottom line, I now have a very sore knee, a package containing the SB28 being sent to Nikon today, and a perfectly operating S2 with a small chip knocked off the edge of the battery tray, along with some abrasion marks on the tray. The body has no marks and MD works just as good as before.
I know it's not as durable as my D1x, but I am impressed with the ruggedness of the S2 body. The SB 28 hit so hard that that part of the attaching foot was still in the S2's mounting flange, but the flange remained undamaged. Thought some of you concerned with the S2's body strength might want to know and to be careful of unfamiliar stairways at night with celebrating!
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F. Dantzler
I left the party to go back to the hotel about 1 AM with the S2, the 17/35 and SB28 attached and as I reached the bottom of a poorly-lit outside staircase, I swore there were no steps remaining before the concrete sidewalk...or maybe it was one too many Guinness's, I don't know, but there was another step that didn't get recorded in my brain and before I knew it I was crashing my 6' 7" frame along with my S2 onto the concrete. Many expletives were uttered and then I realized that the SB28 was no longer attached to the S2, with its batteries scattered all around. I never let go of the S2, so it was still attached to my hand.
Bottom line, I now have a very sore knee, a package containing the SB28 being sent to Nikon today, and a perfectly operating S2 with a small chip knocked off the edge of the battery tray, along with some abrasion marks on the tray. The body has no marks and MD works just as good as before.
I know it's not as durable as my D1x, but I am impressed with the ruggedness of the S2 body. The SB 28 hit so hard that that part of the attaching foot was still in the S2's mounting flange, but the flange remained undamaged. Thought some of you concerned with the S2's body strength might want to know and to be careful of unfamiliar stairways at night with celebrating!
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F. Dantzler
