On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:53:32 -0400, tony cooper wrote:

I had forgotten all about it but just pulled it out of the camera box.
Had I a glass filter, it would likely have saved the lens.

I don't agree with that without seeing the lens. If the lens fell in
such a way that the edge or side of the lens took the impact, the
torsion would break the lens. A filter would have been no help.

Hi Tony,

I don't really know if a filter would have helped.

Here is a picture of the crack.
http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/...40/8663221.jpg

It's hard to see but it's a u-shaped crack in the relatively flat glass
on front of the lens. The marking on the lens say:
Nikon AF Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4-5.6 G

Looking closely, there are also little tiny dots of what appears to be
the broken bits of glass scattered about. I can take a better picture if
you need more information.

I didn't 'see' the camera get dropped. The kids were taking pictures,
and, when I got the camera back, it had the spar. I didn't know who did
it and they didn't say. It was, of course, my fault for letting 10 year
olds use my camera ... but that's a foregone conclusion.

They were playing on boulders and snapping pictures so I can only assume
they dropped it (or swung it into the rocks).

That might be too much detail - but - I wonder - would a filter have
prevented this crack?