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Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L with cracked filter stuck on lense. Any ideas to remove?

Started May 22, 2013 | Questions thread
Michael Fryd
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Re: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L with cracked filter stuck on lense. Any ideas to remove?

Nate1020 wrote:

... Luckily he only major damage was done to the filter.

Thank you.

I would not be sure that a cracked filter was your only damage.  When a lens is dropped, the impact can easily mis-align, or break internal parts.  Focus, zoom, and/or IS can be thrown out of calibration, or broken.

If there is internal damage you may be sending the lens in to Canon for service.  Why not let Canon deal with the filter at the same time?

Hopefully, the cracked shards of filter glass didn't cause any additional damage to your lens.

As others have pointed out, filters provide little in the way of actual physical protection.  As you have noticed, they don't help if you drop the lens.  A major impact to the front of your lens, would pass through the filter and hit the lens anyway.  A minor impact to the front of your lens, wouldn't do any damage.  Where the filter helps is in the very small range of impacts that are just big enough to damage to the lens, but not big enough to break the filter.  For most people these are extremely rare events.

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