well I dropped my 70-200 vr lens twice from about 6 feet. (somebody knocked it from me) and did nothing. but yeah nikon or canon lens they are the big bucks ones are very very durable. you get what you pay for. Sooooo i ordered a 50mm 1.8 af today so hopefully this would work well in stead of the 24-70 for time being. here on out all nikon lenses