Annie_Girl wrote:
One of the gentlemen in my photography club had the tripod socket fail, sent his 5dMkii to the ground. A dozen or so of use saw it happen and stood frozen. The camera took a couple of dings, but the lens hood did not survive, he was lucky he was standing on a soft grass mound instead of the paved trail he just stepped off of, the damage could have been a lot worse.
So the bottom of his camera body cracked open and the tripod socket was pulled out of his camera while it was still attached to a Black rapid style strap?