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04/27/2007 09:46:22 PM · #26 |
No,
but my brother told my mom and she took away my phone as punishment.
She is really mad..
I hope its only something minor. |
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04/27/2007 10:42:04 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by Greetmir:
... it was so securely wrapped in my hand and the strap around my wrist ... |
This is how I carry my camera too. I rarely have it around my neck and if it is I carry it across my body so I can move it to the back or front easily.
Usually I have my hand through it, loop it once then put through again, I can usually take the strap and put it behind my elbow and it makes it sit nice and tight in my hand.
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Hope you can figure the camera out soon. |
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04/28/2007 07:45:02 AM · #28 |
So, I have a neck strap, but I also put my camera in its bag while I am walking. So I take it out of the bag when I see a shot, forget to put the strap around my neck, then see the rushing stream at my feet. Well, then I step back and quickly put the camera strap around my neck, but the filter I had in my other hand slips, sparkles, does a few rounds as it falls, and there it goes, away down the stream. I have lost so many filters this way. Thankfully I haven't lost a camera yet.
So, Joe, do you have a protection plan on that camera? If so, call Sony and let them know you have a camera that doesn't work and they will either fix it or replace it.
Message edited by author 2007-04-28 07:45:14. |
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04/28/2007 10:59:21 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by sabphoto:
Originally posted by Greetmir:
... it was so securely wrapped in my hand and the strap around my wrist ... |
This is how I carry my camera too. I rarely have it around my neck and if it is I carry it across my body so I can move it to the back or front easily.
Usually I have my hand through it, loop it once then put through again, I can usually take the strap and put it behind my elbow and it makes it sit nice and tight in my hand.
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Hope you can figure the camera out soon. |
I do this sorta too. I wrap it around my wrist at least twice and then around my thumb.. and then grab the bit that's left in my palm... and then hold the camera too. I have found myself dragging my lens through the tall grass before which scared the crap out of me. I try to hold with the lens facing behind me and when I walk through grass I hold it up in the air, heh. |
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04/28/2007 12:08:51 PM · #30 |
Joe...
I lost a lot of cameras due to my clumsiness over the years. Took the total destruction of my favorite Mamiya medium format camera to bring my mind to take over control of my ineptness. I suggest that, should you ever be allowed near camera equipment again :D , to do what I did.
Go to the camera store (worth a 100 mile walk, believe me) and find a really comfortable camera strap. Put it onto your camera and learn to live with it! I know...this is what others have said too, but it is the only almost infallible way to stop your camera-destroying ways. Not only are you throwing away money, but you are also missing some wonderful photographs because your favorite camera is now needing hospitalization.
As I have mentioned to you before Joe, you have some talent there ,kiddo, and your enthusiasm is contagiously abundant. But to advance in the photographic arts...you will need a working camera. If all it takes is getting used to the pain of getting used to a neckstrap in order to have a camera for more than a short period of time... I'd say..."go for it!"
Need to get you back behind the camera, Joe!
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04/28/2007 12:34:47 PM · #31 |
Sorry to hear about that Joe.
Happend to me once to, but i sent it on on the 1 year warranty that came with it. And i got a new one, so it's always worth a shot. Just call the company and they will give you an adress. Atleast that's what they did to me. :) That is if the camera has a warranty of course.
Message edited by author 2007-04-28 12:35:17. |
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04/28/2007 10:56:06 PM · #32 |
I called the store I bought the camera from.
At first they had no idea what I was talking about.
They don't exactly carry the camera in the store.
They had to order it (and that made it more expensive)
but eventually I got the manager on the line.
All of those sonys come with a one-year warranty.
Lucky for me the camera was fairly new.
My unofficial photography tutor, Phil, examined the camera and determined that something was wacky with the battery.
Turns out the damage was very minor (thank god)
and I'll be able to get it repaired quickly.
=P
I'm still grounded though. |
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04/28/2007 10:58:35 PM · #33 |
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04/28/2007 11:03:56 PM · #34 |
Well, it made me happy.
Problem is, I've been just itching to get some bird photographs lately, and I've had the best results with the sony.
My olympus is like.. An alien device to me.
I have very little knowledge on how to use it.
I guess it is technically my big brother's camera.
I'm so impatient with waiting for repairs!
D= |
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04/28/2007 11:04:52 PM · #35 |
I bought an HP at a pawn shop one time for very cheap, as it was not working exactly right. One of the contacts for the batteries had been pushed in too far and was intermittent. It was fine after I pulled the little spring back up some.
It's good to hear that this story may have a relatively inexpensive if not happy ending. : )
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04/28/2007 11:08:10 PM · #36 |
Haha.
Bet the original owners would've felt regret if they'd known that. |
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04/28/2007 11:22:19 PM · #37 |
Joe, you've got TWO DSLRs? The Rebel and the Sony?
I'll be happy to trade you one of my P&S cameras for either one. :)
They're small and it won't hurt as bad if you drop and break them.
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04/28/2007 11:27:16 PM · #38 |
I saved up for the sony with the money from two birthdays, one christmas, and ALOT of yard work. I wasn't even saving up for the sony, but the camera I wanted turned out to be not such a good camera. Then I got the sony.
The olympus is my brother's.
He's mean to me when I use it.
The canon is kind of.. On hiatus right now.
I only had one lens for it and I killed it. ;-; |
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