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03/20/2006 09:59:46 AM · #26 |
***Takes turn at whacking Rikki upside his head***
Sorry, couldn't pass up the Rikki whacking :-)
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03/20/2006 10:21:26 AM · #27 |
Originally posted by mattmac:
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)......
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I do it all the time.
It's just instinctive.
I'm been playing football (soccer) all my life and when ever I drop something, I automatically try and stop the fall with my foot.
A glass or a brick, it doesn't matter, usually you can do enough to slow the object down and at least prevent major damage to it.
A professional goalkeeper did something similar once :
In 1993 keeper Dave Beasant was kept out by a foot injury caused by a falling jar of salad cream. Yes, he fumbled it, and because his hands were full he stuck out a foot to stop it hitting the floor!
Found at: unusual footballing injuries
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03/20/2006 10:35:37 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by UNCLEBRO:
I do it all the time.
It's just instinctive. |
Me too.
And I wasn't entirely joking about saving my kid with that move. When she was 2 (or something), she started to fall backwards off the stairs in front of our house (concrete) and I was able to "trap" her head with my foot, and guide her to the ground. She still scuffed up her elbows and hands, but her pretty little head was a-ok.
I think it's hereditary.
The Most Ninja-like response I have ever witnessed was my father in a restaurant...we were seated, enjoying our meal, when a waitress walked behind my dad and started to stumble. My dad looked over his LEFT shoulder (since she was walking towards him from his left), saw that a glass of water was falling off the tray (behind him)...he then reached behind him with his RIGHT hand, made the catch, placed the glass on our table, and continued the conversation like nothing ever happened.
That, my DPC friends, is Ninja-Status.
(Let me tie this in to the original thread). Hope all is well with the 'L', Rikki.
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03/20/2006 10:48:57 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by MadMan2k:
I think Scalvert dropped his 70-200 out of his pocket and had to get it repaired... |
Ugh, painful memory. I still have to send my 10-22 in for service after dropping that one too. :-( |
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03/20/2006 10:52:44 AM · #30 |
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03/20/2006 11:02:47 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Ugh, painful memory. I still have to send my 10-22 in for service after dropping that one too. :-( |
next g2g with you and langdon, i'm leaving my bag at home ;-) |
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03/20/2006 11:05:33 AM · #32 |
well the photos seem like the white lens turned out ok. I can still hear that loud thud it made as it hit the concrete floor and the gasps from the people around me.
never again ;) |
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03/20/2006 11:26:27 AM · #33 |
I dropped my EOS 1V with the 100mm macro attached about 3' of my baby carriage down to a tiled floor in a stable, it landed within 3" of some manure.. lucky to get a "clean" fall :) I could have saved it from the fall, but decided I'd rather save by 2yr old girl from the same fall ..
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I think I made the right choice.. a good thing neither got damaged :)
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03/20/2006 11:27:40 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by Rikki:
never again ;) |
uh huh ... *whack*
Message edited by author 2006-03-20 11:40:44.
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03/20/2006 11:50:44 AM · #35 |
Originally posted by Rikki:
well the photos seem like the white lens turned out ok. I can still hear that loud thud it made as it hit the concrete floor and the gasps from the people around me.
never again ;) |
you deserve more of this: 
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03/20/2006 12:30:08 PM · #36 |
| Wow, what a story Rikki, glad all turned out well in the end! However, this does present a great opportunity to shift up to the F/2.8 IS version!! Then again, maybe you want to put your current lens through some more trauma, like dragging it behind the car for a few miles, or seeing if you can get some cool underwater shots with it or something. :-) |
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03/20/2006 01:39:30 PM · #37 |
Geesh, Rikki... In grade school were you always picked last for dodgeball? I've been shooting for 40 years and have never dropped a lens (knock on wood). However, I did lose and entire 4x5 view camera mounted on its tripod over a cliff at Big Sur once :-)
Robt.
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03/20/2006 03:55:33 PM · #38 |
| i think you have me beat on this one Robert. Losing a 4x5 camera in a "freak" fall is worse :P |
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03/20/2006 04:14:09 PM · #39 |
Hey Rikki,
I'd still have that lens checked out just to be sure.
I dropped a film camera a few feet onto a concrete floor while shooting a horse show once. (Caught the strap around my knee as I stood up. The lens took it direct and thank goodness for the sky light filter bending and absorbing most of the shock. It seemed to work fine afterwards & I finished shooting the show but I took it in (camera & lens) to have it checked out to be sure. The camea checked out fine except for some scratches to the body but the lens DID have some internal damage to the rings that hold the glass in place and they had to be replaced and the lenses realigned. Didn't cost much and it was a Sigma. You couldn't tell in the pix I took after the crash but I'm glad I had it repaired just in case a minor bump would have knocked things more out of whack. |
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03/20/2006 04:16:57 PM · #40 |
| Damn. Well that's what three hands are for. Btw, sorry the Sharks suck and all. Go Stars & Rangers ;) |
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03/20/2006 04:26:56 PM · #41 |
Originally posted by yanko:
Damn. Well that's what three hands are for. Btw, sorry the Sharks suck and all. Go Stars & Rangers ;) |
booooooooo!!! |
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03/20/2006 04:47:47 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by yanko:
Damn. Well that's what three hands are for. Btw, sorry the Sharks suck and all. Go Stars & Rangers ;) |
wOOt!! Rangers!!
(and Habs! :P) |
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03/20/2006 05:00:59 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Geesh, Rikki... In grade school were you always picked last for dodgeball? I've been shooting for 40 years and have never dropped a lens (knock on wood). However, I did lose and entire 4x5 view camera mounted on its tripod over a cliff at Big Sur once :-)
Robt. |
LOL - You gotta share some details. I have in my mind Bear all serious at the top of a long climb, standing behind a big view camera and just needing a final shift of the front tripod leg - Then watching the view get better as the box in front of the view drops away :-) |
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03/20/2006 05:07:41 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by robs:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Geesh, Rikki... In grade school were you always picked last for dodgeball? I've been shooting for 40 years and have never dropped a lens (knock on wood). However, I did lose and entire 4x5 view camera mounted on its tripod over a cliff at Big Sur once :-)
Robt. |
LOL - You gotta share some details. I have in my mind Bear all serious at the top of a long climb, standing behind a big view camera and just needing a final shift of the front tripod leg - Then watching the view get better as the box in front of the view drops away :-) |
Wasn't quite that dramatic. I was at a pullout along the highway, at the top of the cliff, photographing in the aftermath of a clearing storm. I had the camera set up and was a few feet away getting my dilm holder from my box; I turned around just in time to see the camera doing a slow pirouette into emptiness; two feet of cliff gave way, and my front tripod leg was in that 2 feet.
I just stood there dumbfounded and watched her slide into oblivion; no WAY I was gonna rush after the damned thing, with a landslide happening. I had insurance anyway...
Robt.
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03/21/2006 11:00:03 AM · #45 |
How high was that cliff?
I wonder if that camera is still there, buried under silt and muck, just waiting to be discovered by the next rise of civilization... |
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03/21/2006 11:37:34 AM · #46 |
Originally posted by eschelar:
How high was that cliff?
I wonder if that camera is still there, buried under silt and muck, just waiting to be discovered by the next rise of civilization... |
Couple Hundred feet. Essentially vertical. Into the pacific ocean. Camera's surely destroyed by now.
R.
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03/21/2006 01:05:39 PM · #47 |
Rikki - glad to hear it all worked out. I know how you felt as I dropped my D70 with Nikon 70-200 VR 2.8 from full monopod height. It actually bounced when it hit and my heart sunk. Stupid me for leaning a monopod agaist a counter! Anyway, all turned out well with the exception of my on cmaera flash no longer pops up on its own.
Now Bear has the real story. Why no quick Ninja moves to save it Bear?
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