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09/28/2009 08:18:11 PM · #51 |
Man I got a few myself
1 $550
2 Canon 70-200 f/4L
3 3 feet
4 hard rock at the Grand Canon
5 6.9923
6 Asked my wife to "hold this for a minute while I change lenses and don't drop it..."click" as she drops it" my words after were "you're not allowed to hold the lenses anymore"
7 a small ding on the mount close to the white plastic of the lens, caused the plastic to crack a bit but no serious structural damage, lens was still tack sharp.
1 $1400
2 canon 16-35 f/2.8L
3 about 4 feet with camera attached while camera was slung around my side.
4 giant Bolder and by ribcage...ouch
5 Don't know if I've entered a shot with this lens, ill check
6 I had no initial words since I slip and fell four feet forward onto a boulder with my ribcage and camera breaking my fall. I had one camera in my hand and the other other slung around my side. I slipped on one boulder while trying to get to another, when I started falling I held the one camera up so as not to hit the boulder resulting in my ribcage taking the brunt and completely knocking the wind out of me and banging the camera and new lens(about a month old) against the rock.
7 Lens was fine, camera had some heavy scrapes but no serious damage to either...now my ribs, that's another story. A trip to the emergency room showed no fractures but I was unable to move for a few days and was very sore for at least 30 days with another 30 days of being stiff. Man that hurt:-) All for some Bald Eagle pics!
Message edited by author 2009-09-28 20:19:00. |
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09/28/2009 08:20:33 PM · #52 |
| AS for the Nikon peeps, I thought I remembered someone here dropping their 70-200 VR lens into some river off of a bridge, can't remember who but I'm sure they will never forget it. |
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09/30/2009 06:09:04 AM · #53 |
1. $800 aud
2. Canon 70-200f/4L
3. 6 feet
4. apex of step ladder, then wooden floor, encased within a insert from a camera bag.
5. 6.2
6. "it just fell, it just fell!?" and huge disbelief. I'd just placed it on the top closet shelf as I was doing a stocktake of all my lenses.
7. Lens cap - ok surprisingly, as it hit face on to the pointy top of the ladder.
Filter smashed. As I was picking it up I hoped that the filter would have saved it and it did.
LENS - OK but may never be able to fit another filter as my husband had to unscrew it with a wrench thingy.
This just happened in the last 30 minutes. I gotta go lie down now.
I still can't believe it happened, I'm usually so careful
Message edited by author 2009-09-30 06:10:28. |
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10/04/2009 03:56:57 PM · #54 |
My horror story was today.
1. $1,100
2. Canon 70-200f/4L IS
3. Waist height
4. Asphalt
5. None
6. Oh Shit
7. Amazingly Yes
I picked up my Tamrac Adventure 10 and the main compartment was unzipped and out fell my 70-200 as well as my 28-135 IS and my 380 EX Flash.
The 70-200 dove out nose first. The lens cap popped off on impact but the UV filter shattered and rim bent - taking the brunt of the impact. Other than that no damage, not even paint scratching. Even the lens cap had only a slight mark. The 28-135 was unharmed except for some minor chinking on the hood which was reverse mounted.
This could have been a disaster. I am forever sold on the value of a UV filter on the front of every lens. This one (a Hoya btw) sacrificed itself but saved my L glass.
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10/04/2009 06:44:46 PM · #55 |
1. Price: About $2000+ at the time
2. Name: Zeiss Distagon 60mm
3. Distance to impact: about 4 feet
4. Surface impacted onto: carpet
5. Highest DPC score with it: It wasn't my lens... I was working as an assistant (first day!) for a local photographer... DOH!!!
6. Your reaction: "Is this my last day?"
7. Did it survive: Yep... no damage, worked fine, and I never dropped another lens again! |
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10/04/2009 06:52:00 PM · #56 |
I am forever sold on the value of a UV filter on the front of every lens.
Absolutely! |
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10/04/2009 07:07:20 PM · #57 |
| Christmas day, opening up my present to find Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lense. Opening the box was difficult and when I finally got it opened it "popped" out and fell to the ground (about 3 ft). Needless to say there was a lens glass that came free so I had to send it in to get it repaired. ugh. |
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10/04/2009 09:41:20 PM · #58 |
1. 300ish
2. 85 f1.8
3. 2 feet
4. concrete
5. i have no idea
6. "oh shit" as said lens fall out of pocket
7. the motor that powers the aperture mechanism broke so i could only take photos at f1.8 so i sent it in, fixed free of charge but it came back focusing wrong so i sent it back again and its back now workin great
Today i was rock climbing and the girl i was belaying was about 40 feet up when her camera (a p&s) fell out of her pocket and preceded to hit straight down on a rock and bounce up about 6 feet then down to the next ledge... the camera survived with a big dent in the side and the card came out but it works fine. I thought it wouldve smashed into like 5 little pieces from that brutal fall |
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10/04/2009 11:13:20 PM · #59 |
I've never dropped SLR lenses other than a few inches onto a chair or the car floor. But I've managed to drown two P&S cameras.
Canon A620
$250 (I think)
water from a water bottle emptied into it in a backpack
n/a
6.5
Dismay that the $250 waterproof box we'd bought to go with it was now useless as we started our cruise
Yes - after a week, it dried out and worked fine for a couple more years
Canon S2 IS
$300
3 feet
lake
6.99, yellow ribbon
Damn, that's TWICE our P&S cameras have been drowned
Yes - this one took a month to dry out |
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