This is from the collection of a photographer friend of mine. While you may think “gee, does that mean they’re cheap and poorly designed?”, in actual fact this demonstrates how well designed they are (or at the very least, how lucky my friend is).

Long story short, he was standing next to the curb wearing the camera around his neck when a car whizzed by and hit the lens - taking it off and splitting it in half. Amazingly, there was no damage to the body of his camera at all.

Taken with the same lens (50mm F/1.8).

Harley tries to sway Adam into putting his book down while simultaneously working on convincing me that giving him a belly rub would be a far better use of my time. Sneaky bugger.

This is Penny, the timid little one who rarely comes out and usually refuses to tolerate a camera. I take it from this, however, that she approves of my new lens.