[kNox]

So, not long after I got my shiny new Nikon D7100, I was careless when picking up my backpack for just one second and I dropped it from about knee-height. Even though the body is made from magnesium, the short fall (on a wooden floor, no less) caused one of the plastic panels of the bottom of the camera to break, the locking mechanism on the lens was also broken, and (apparently, as the Nikon Service people told me), the "bayonette" (the metal ring on the camera that connects to the lens) was also damaged and needed recalibration.

All of this, although not much at first glance, cost me 270E, and more than two weeks after I took my camera into the shop I have yet to get it back.

While talking with some friends, I discovered I was less lucky - some of them had their cameras in much worse situations with little to no damage. So, did you ever break your camera? How? What was the damage and how much did the repairs cost?