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01/06/2007 07:55:59 PM · #1 |
Somewhere here a few days ago or so someone posted a thread about dropping their 50mm 1.8. I replied with something and all I can remember about it was I stated that I hadn't ever dropped one yet and I think we all dread the day it happens us. Well today it happened. I dropped my brand new less than two week old 300mm F4 L IS. It seems to OK but boy did it scare the shit outta me. I had the sickest feeling as it slipped from hands, landed on the bed and bounced off onto the floor. The first words outta my mouth were OH F--K. I stood there dumb-founded looking at it laying on the floor. I think I was scared to touch it fearing that it was broke or something. When I would read these threads about people dropping lenses, I often wonder how they felt as the situation unfolded. Know I know. It's a pretty sick feeling I tell ya.
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01/06/2007 07:58:39 PM · #2 |
| I hope to never share your experience. |
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01/06/2007 07:59:03 PM · #3 |
| Another lens-dropping virgin gets deflowered ;-) |
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01/06/2007 08:15:44 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by hajeka:
I hope to never share your experience. |
I hope you don't also.
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01/06/2007 08:19:00 PM · #5 |
| Try not zipping your camera bag it would've happened sooner :P |
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01/06/2007 08:29:59 PM · #6 |
I was walking down from a 35 foot deer stand last weekend. After a couple steps down the the strap on my camera bag got caught on something and unhooked. It fell to the ground.
I could only watch form above wondering how bad things may be. Walking down the ladder seemed like it took forever, but it was only a few seconds.
I picked up the bag, took the camera out and tooks a few shots. No problems...whew.
What terrible few moments though...I know that feeling. |
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01/06/2007 08:33:44 PM · #7 |
| i dropped my camera the day after i got it, it fell over 12 feet over a railing but luckily it landed RIGHT in the laundry hamper. I was so happy i couldn't believe it lol, now i keep a death grip on it at all times and the strap is around my neck nomatter what im doing. |
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01/06/2007 08:38:37 PM · #8 |
I had my new camera about 4-5 months It came with 2 kit lenses. My husband dropped me off at a monestary while he went and did his work at the grocery store. (he repairs the check out lanes and back office servers) He told me he would be back for me in about an hour... I must have been busily taking shots and realized it was MUCH longer more like 2 hrs and worried he had another call to go to and couldn't find me. So in my panic I hurried back toward the parking lot. Without seeing where I was going the toe of my shoe caught a raised spot in the concrete and I went down with my camera in hand. It was going to go down on the concrete if I didn't do something. So I tossed it toward the grass as I went face, elbows and knees into the concrete. My reaction probably saved the camera itself but the lens caught the edge of the sidewalk. I just laid there looking at the camera in disbelief. I was to stunned to actually cry. I just picked it up and walked back to the car not realizing I was in any pain. My husband seen me and was all worried. Then I went hysterical and he thought I was injured. LOL later that day I dropped the other lens and shattered the UV filter and the motor inside. I picked it up and it rattled like a baby rattle... I got hysterical yet again. It was a REALLY bad day!
I didn't know then I could insure the thing.
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01/06/2007 08:57:39 PM · #9 |
I've heard tale of an insurance you can buy that will insure against dropped lenses/cameras - you drop one and submit a claim and get a replacement.
I heard it's not cheap - but does anyone know about anything like this? |
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01/06/2007 09:17:25 PM · #10 |
I have insurance that will replace my equipment. Whether I drop it, it gets stolen or whatever, it's covered. I later reminded myself of that fact after the initial shock of actually dropping wore off.
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01/06/2007 09:25:23 PM · #11 |
my neck strap gave out / came unclipped ..D200 & 80-200 went face first down to the pavement --was lucky & was able to deflect /absorb alot of the impact on my shoe -- rest was cement on the lens hood (took a big chip off the plastic hood)
no damage to the lens or camera after a bounce or two ..
but i replaced the strap next day!!!! |
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01/06/2007 09:35:52 PM · #12 |
I had a similar experience and it's not fun. I dropped a brand new lens on Christmas morning. My sister had just got a brand new nikon D80 with a 18-105mm lens and she got it all ready to take some pictures, she said she was pressing the shutter button but nothing happened so she handed it to me to see what she needed to do and when I looked through the view finder the lens fell off! As you can imagine from your own experiences it startled me. I was lucky enough to stick my leg out and slow it down as it fell and it landed fairly gently and rolled with no visible damage and seemed to still work fine.
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01/06/2007 09:44:31 PM · #13 |
this is the problem with digital. i fell off a cliff with my k1000, it fell from the top of a fridge to a concrete floor, it got dropped in the sand, i fell off my bike wearing it... it was fine. the leica had even harder treatment. they still took great pics. until they were stolen.
now i have my funky dslr, and have to keep reminding myself to be careful with the thing. it's not mechanical. so far, so lucky. keeping my fingers crossed...
my first thought after falling off the cliff (35ft onto a frozen river) was; is the camera ok? only then did i think - i hope the ice doesn't crack (it'll get the camera wet), and then; how do i get back up?
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01/06/2007 10:04:33 PM · #14 |
Its funny how we think of our cameras first then our wellbeing. LOL
I hope you were ok from falling off a cliff. That doesn't sound to pleasant.
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01/06/2007 10:05:39 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Tlemetry:
Its funny how we think of our cameras first then our wellbeing. LOL
I hope you were ok from falling off a cliff. That doesn't sound to pleasant. |
i was young and bouncy still. this was around 18 years ago. GAH! 18 years ago? good lord, i'm getting old!
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01/06/2007 10:11:15 PM · #16 |
My nephew Doug and I were on a narrow guage steam RR shooting from the platform right behind the tender. A jog in the rails threw him almost head long between the car and the tender. He never let go of his Canon Mk II, which smacked lens first into the tender hard enough to take the paint off the tender. He does not use a skylight filter, but when we looked at the camera, there was no detectable damage, and it still is fine. It was an extremely "high pucker factor" moment however.  Doug,
Where the camera and Doug's knuckles hit the tender. The red mark is where the paint scraped off the tender.
I dropped my best zoom (at the time) in the Bahamas, over the edge of a structure by letting it roll out of a camera bag with the top open. It's a sort of "Uh Oh" kind of feeling for sure.
To get the pics, you have to take the lenses everywhere. I say "No guts, no glory!"
Message edited by author 2007-01-06 22:17:02.
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