Don't Try This At Home...

**moose135** · 2013-07-19, 01:14 AM

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**Landing Lights** · 2013-07-19, 07:31 AM

Obviously the lenses are tougher than the way most of us treat them. Optical grade glass is a remarkably durable substance and it takes a lot of force to crack it with a direct impact. The bigger risk with a lens is damage to the electronics or side impacts. However I have one nitpick: holding any object in your hand as you impact it is going to diminish the impact force that is transferred to the object down to next to nothing. Your arm and hand act like a giant shock absorber. Those first few light hammer taps with the lens on the table transferred much more force than any of the subsequent hits did.