If you’ve never dropped and lost a lens cap, lens hood, eyepiece, or something worse, you’re probably not out there taking enough pictures. There are some places though where you really don’t want to drop your camera, like, say, orbiting the Earth. Don’t think they’ll be getting that one back.
On that topic, here’re a couple (rather large) pictures of the camera gear aboard the ISS. Pretty cool stuff. Although I’m sure that for as much as that stuff certainly cost, it was far more expensive to launch it all into space…
(Linkage shamelessly pilfered from the excellent Strobist blog. If you’re at all interested in photography, that site should be in your bookmarks.)
