Originally Posted by cpx
I've found Canon to be very resilient. I have a few lenses
that survived the fall very well.. havent lost anything yet.
I fell (on rocks) on top of a $5K Canon lens two weeks after I bought it.
My hand bled like a stuck pig for the
entire hour hike back to the car, but the lens was unscathed.
Take a look at what the DNC photographers saw at their
2004 convention
And scroll down a few frames to the cameras at the
2004 Olympics
That said, I did suggest a D50 to a friend who wanted a digital SLR with good specs that wouldn't break the bank. She wanted to the the camera for horse show type events.