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 03/20/2006 01:56:16 AM · #1
I was at the Sharks hockey game tonight. As I was changing from my 10-22mm to my 70-200l, I dropped the big white lens! My heart literally skipped a beat as I saw my beautiful lens hurtling a few feet from me. It dropped from about 18" as I was seated and dropped about a couple of feet away from me. It was an intermission so everyone was just chatting and drinking their beer. As soon as it fell, silence was all I heard. Everyone was like, "Damn! that was a hard fall. I hope your lens is ok". So did I. After a few checks, it seems like it's back in shape. No dents or scratches. I shook it and didn't hear anything break inside. I'm uploading the photos and will post the before and after images. I really hope the lens is fine.

Anyone else had this happen to them? I am just glad that a pro lens like this can take the beating and still keep on ticking ;)

Rikki
 03/20/2006 01:57:48 AM · #2
** Art whacks his brother upside the head **
 03/20/2006 01:58:14 AM · #3
Damn Dude! I really hope your glass is ok.
 03/20/2006 01:58:45 AM · #4
Nice, I'm glad it was OK. I think Scalvert dropped his 70-200 out of his pocket and had to get it repaired, maybe you were lucky.
 03/20/2006 02:00:44 AM · #5
** Art whacks his brother upside the head again **
03/20/2006 02:02:22 AM · #6
I was movinga cupboard and I had my 2kg Sigma Bigma 50-500mm on one of the shelves...I heard a CRASH! It fell to the ground and landed on the back lens cap...I put it on my camera and goodnight Jack...eroor. I saw a loose circuit board and decided I was only a few screws away from repairing it myself. The circuit board came apart. I embarrasingly took it in for repair...$209 later, all is well. It fell from about 1.5 metres down onto a concrete floor.
03/20/2006 02:04:35 AM · #7
I hope that my white beauty is not damaged at all. I am holding my breath the next time I use it. I will be really pissed if I have a door stop as part of my equipment ;(
 03/20/2006 02:05:31 AM · #8
** Crayon hands Art a baseball bat and asks Art to be creative **
 03/20/2006 02:07:26 AM · #9
Originally posted by crayon:
** Crayon hands Art a baseball bat and asks Art to be creative **

Anger management classes have helped learn when enough is enough.

* Art takes baseball bat and whacks crayon in the kneecap for inciting unnecessary violence *
 03/20/2006 02:10:47 AM · #10
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by crayon:
** Crayon hands Art a baseball bat and asks Art to be creative **

Anger management classes have helped learn when enough is enough.

* Art takes baseball bat and whacks crayon in the kneecap for inciting unnecessary violence *


ouch
 03/20/2006 02:15:29 AM · #11
Wooohooooo!!! Now we just need kiwiness to drop a couple lenses ;)

J/K, of course. My heart sunk just reading that! I hope it's ok!!!!
03/20/2006 02:24:02 AM · #12
Rikki, I did the same thing. Except I dropped my Pentax P30t flim camera, and it bounced down a flight of stone stairs. Guess what? It still works. Lens too.

I hope your lens is ok.
 03/20/2006 02:40:18 AM · #13
this is all I have to say to you Rikki:
03/20/2006 02:40:29 AM · #14
I took my SD400 out the first day I had it, set it on top of a mailbox and to my dismay it fell about 5 feet onto pavement, with the lens still open and everything... it was actually recording a video at the time, and the resulting video file was pretty funny.. the horizon, then a blur of sky and trees, then a blank screen, then my hand picking it back up.

Still worked though, but the zoom motor is noisier and there's some scratches on it. Yay for canon point-and-shoots, eh?
 03/20/2006 02:43:48 AM · #15
Here are a few edits. Straight out of camera pretty much except for running it through NI since I was shooting at ISO 1600.

Here are shots before the fall:


I was up pretty high in the nose-bleed section. I was sitting in a location where the netting sometimes gets in the way so you'll notice it in some of the shots. Here's a view:


Shortly after I took that shot, I dropped the lens. Ouch! Here are some shots after the drop:


I surely hope my baby is ok. This lens has been through a lot. When PhillipDyer and I were shooting the Red Bull and Blue Angels show in SF, this puppy got drenched (as in buckets of salt water). And now this.

Lesson? take care of your equipment folks ;) You may not be so lucky as I am ;) Comments and thoughts are most welcome. I've never shot a hockey game before.

Rikki

edit to add: The Sharks won 5-4 ;)

Message edited by author 2006-03-20 02:45:47.
 03/20/2006 02:46:40 AM · #16
Originally posted by Rikki:
Comments and thoughts are most welcome. I've never shot a hockey game before.

Rikki

edit to add: The Sharks won 5-4 ;)



03/20/2006 02:46:50 AM · #17
Originally posted by Rikki:


edit to add: The Sharks won 5-4 ;)


um.. 6-5 ;D
 03/20/2006 02:48:37 AM · #18
Originally posted by Artyste:
Originally posted by Rikki:


edit to add: The Sharks won 5-4 ;)


um.. 6-5 ;D


Cut him some slack - he had a lot on his mind. ...and he took a few whacks to the head recently. :)
 03/20/2006 02:48:44 AM · #19
Originally posted by Artyste:
Originally posted by Rikki:


edit to add: The Sharks won 5-4 ;)


um.. 6-5 ;D


Ooops. Yeah 6-5 ;)
 03/20/2006 07:56:30 AM · #20
Now I don't feel so dumb about rolling my camera bag down a hill. Luckily it was zipped and no damage was done, but boy is that a heart-sinker.

Glad all appears to be well, Rikki. That would be a tough repair bill to swallow.
 03/20/2006 08:04:32 AM · #21
Great photos Rikki!

Hey, maybe you should get some stickum for the runawy lens :P
 03/20/2006 08:55:09 AM · #22
I dropped my Tamron 75-300 the other week out of my storage cupboard, it fell about 7 foot on to my foot and that really hurt, still having problems with my foot now, the lense still works ok, the soft landing must have saved it.
 03/20/2006 08:58:46 AM · #23
*dumps popcorn on couchmate*

In all seriousness, glad to hear it's ok, and yes, pro lens are meant to take a bit of beating.

Just don't do it again :P

Say, is Adam Graves still playing out there or did he get traded or retire?
 03/20/2006 09:54:03 AM · #24
Sounds like you need to work on your ninja-like reflexes...or your soccer skills.

There is nothing better than "trapping" an object with the top of your foot before something hits the ground, like Pele (or some other soccer player that big dumb americans like me don't know about, even though we played the game as a kid)...that move has saved my kid from drain bamage quite a few times (Dad of the year award, here). Okay, that's a joke. (kinda).

Now, if you were REALLY nasty, you would drop the lens, trap it with your foot, and then flick it back up to your hand - all without skipping a beat. If you can do that, you get ninja status, in my book...or you're really rich and don't care about busting $1700 lenses.

If you have no code of ethics, this would be the perfect time to eBay that thing "Like new condition. No scratches. Great images. Never been bounced on concrete at a hockey game, or been soaked in salt water. Really."
Should sell like hot cakes.
(which we all know sell REALLY well).

This is probably THE most pointless thing I have ever written in my life.

03/20/2006 09:55:45 AM · #25
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
** Art whacks his brother upside the head **
.... with a big white lens. Don't do that again, Rikki!
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