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Anyone destroyed an EF 70-300mm L?

Started Jan 7, 2016 | Questions thread
bigfatron Contributing Member • Posts: 777
Re: Anyone destroyed an EF 70-300mm L?

maarensv wrote:

I tried to sand off the coating on the outside by using a third party tripod mount ring, and I succeeded in that. Some of the white coating missing now. Definitely my own mistake.

For anything else, being not overly cautious using my photographic gear, the L survived all my mistreatments pretty well. Stopped using protectionfilters quite a while ago and the coating on the front element is still perfect.

Sandor.

I had a similar experience where i'd rubbed a tiny bit of the paint off with a third party collar.  Still irks me that one wasn't supplied with the lens and the official one is criminally expensive.

I had another L lens (24-105L) survive having the front 1-2cm immersed in running water (low shot on a mini-tripod and the camera overbalanced forward into the edge of a stream) for a couple of seconds with no ill effect.  Fortunately it had a filter attached at the time.

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