I was at Fry’s Electronics Sunday in the camera area. A guy came through with his wife and daughter with the sales guy tagging along. They were looking at camera cases for his daughter’s fuchsia colored digital camera. The kid is like 9. Maybe she’s 12 and just little. Anyway he asks the sales guy for a case that will protect the camera in case his daughter, “…you know drops it…hurls it across the room…that sort of thing…” And instead of taking him down the street where he can purchase such a case along with other MIL-SPEC/TACTICAL gear the sales guy fixes him up with a case that will protect the camera if it falls about a foot.

Okay for the record. DO NOT drop cameras of ANY kind. I don’t care if it says something like “shock resistant” or whatever. I’ve done it. You won’t like it. Cameras have lots of moving parts. And those parts need to be free to do exactly what they were designed to do. So for anyone who is looking for such a protective case, just get the whole entire idea of dropping the camera as something to do and expect it to just keep ticking OUT. OF. YOUR. HEAD.

Thank you. This PSA is posted on behalf of all cameras out there, both digital and analog who don’t want to be in the shop.