I have been shooting Nikon for over ten years, I love the equipment to death the stuff just keeps working I have destroyed some lenses and a body once but they took some crazy abuse before giving up on me. Here is how to brake a Nikon and probably the only way. Hit a burm track and crash wearing your camera bag but make sure your lenses are mounted to the body. That’s exactly what I did probably about five years back.
 
The impact was so hard that my bag exploded at the seams the zipper held up though. I was devastated when I saw how my equipment was brutally scattered everywhere, it looked like a yard sale. I built up the strength to get up and dragged myself to pick up the carnage. The first lens I picked up was my 17-35 looked ok but I was definitely sending it in for a check up my 80-200 didn’t fare so well. I was stupid enough to leave her mounted on the camera body, well if you have not guessed what happened I will tell you. The lens broke in two right at the mount better a lens then a body. The body took a hard hit and was badly scratched up but survived. I was lucky, I paid over $3800 for that body back in the day that was the best money could buy for Nikon. My fisheye lens was fine and my flash looked like hell but worked. Lesson learned I guess! Don’t crash with camera equipment it gets expensive fast, and most importantly don’t ride with your camera body mounted to a lens if it doesn’t brake off it will whittle its way loose which is just as bad. 

Well nothing life devastating happened today to cause me to purchase two new lenses other then I had one piece of old equipment that was starting to not work as seamlessly as it once did and another lens that has served me well for almost eight hard years. I was able to trade them in with a older camera body which was smart because they where starting to drop fast in value.

The lenses I picked up included a AF-S VR Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 and the AF-S VR Micro Nikkor 105mm f2.8 I did not have the 105mm previously I had a cheaper macro lens and today after shooting one workshop was able to put her into heavy use and boy does she perform well. I also shot a model for my buddies at RIS Designs, they needed a poster for her to sign at the Sand Sports Super Show and test drove my 70-200mm. The lens worked flawlessly, the button placements and focus rings are moved around slightly which felt a little awkward but by the end of the shoot I had it down.