Originally posted by nms_photog Yeah, exactly!!!!!! I heard the impact and didn't want to look. When I did, and seen the lens lying on the ground separated from the camera, my first thought was the camera broke. When I picked all the pieces up,I too was very disappointed in that a solid metal bayonet mount on a $1000 lens is screwed into a plastic support.
I imagine the lens is designed to break there to minimize damage elsewhere, kind of like crumple zones in modern cars.
It still sucks though, but imagine with a fall like that if it hadn't broken there, it could have destroyed the camera as well as the lens.