Canon 7D/Tokina 11-16 tragedy

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steve witt

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Was gonna shoot this morning. Packed my nice camera bag with all lenses and my 7D with the Tokina 11-16 attatched. Stopped to put the packed camera bag in the trunk of my car and set it on the ground... then got distracted as I see a FedEx package off to the side of the front door of my house. I thought that I better put that inside, so I walk away from the bag still on the ground behind my car. Returned to my car less than 3minutes later...got in and backed over it. It was smashed and compressed between the bottom of the car and the driveway, Not run over with tire thank goodness.

The Tokina broke off near its mount and rear lens element, The 7D got scratched and has a ton of debris on the sensor. Took that to a camera shop to get the sensor cleaned (Its there now). I think the Tokina may be a gonner but I wanna make sure. Elements are in tact and not scratched. Who/where should I send it to? Here's what the Tokina looks like now. (Nothing else in the bag was damaged as far as I can tell)
 

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I would be so kicking myself right now if I did that. Maybe the manufacturer can replace the mount and contacts if the optics are intact? I think it might cost as much as the lens itself to do that though.
 
oh, the pain!!!!

I can't imagine how the current generation of kids are going to survive in the real world, with the attention span of gnats...... oooh look, a fluffy kitty :)
 
I did something eerily similar once. I forgot to retrieve the Wawa coffe cup I had placed on the roof of my car before driving away.
 
Insured?

And I've heard of far worse. Backing over a case of Master Primes with a cube truck. Waaaay worse. So at least this was a minor sort of learning pain.
 
im calling the cops, for hit and run on a camera. Now, if you would of bought a RED, you would be already bled out from the wrists.
 
That sucks. I dropped my "nifty fifty" a while back and now the focus sticks. No good in manual or autofocus, but it's not worth selling, so I figured I'd have a crack at it. Any idea how to take it apart (and successfully put it back together)? Is it tough to take apart a simple plastic lens that's already assembled?
 
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