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02/21/2010 06:41:41 AM · #1 |
So I'm all ready to take my first set of photos on my Buddhist temple stay. I pull out my camera and... what's this? My new 28-105 usm lens looks a little off. Oh my god its broken! I try to take a photos and it takes one... I have some hope and then... nooo. Nope its really broken.
I was about to cry when a chihuahua in the most ridiculous outfit pranced into my vision.
Flash forward, I'm home from my trip and take out what I think is that broken lens and hear pieces moving that I didn't hear before. Oh wait, its my 85 mm usm lense. I open it up, the filter is shattered in pieces behind the lens cap. Luckily that one seems to be in working order but I can't seem to get the plastic ring that remains of the filter off...
All this because my backpack (a padded camera backpack at that) fell off the hook in the rest stop bathroom. I'm beyond bummed. Something was out of place on my camera too and I almost died... but I popped it back in and it seems to be ok.
Starting to wonder about insurance...
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02/21/2010 08:06:15 AM · #2 |
| OUCH!!!! Sorry, that's got to hurt. |
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02/21/2010 08:08:37 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by escapetooz:
So I'm all ready to take my first set of photos on my Buddhist temple stay. I pull out my camera and... what's this? My new 28-105 usm lens looks a little off. Oh my god its broken! I try to take a photos and it takes one... I have some hope and then... nooo. Nope its really broken.
I was about to cry when a chihuahua in the most ridiculous outfit pranced into my vision.
Flash forward, I'm home from my trip and take out what I think is that broken lens and hear pieces moving that I didn't hear before. Oh wait, its my 85 mm usm lense. I open it up, the filter is shattered in pieces behind the lens cap. Luckily that one seems to be in working order but I can't seem to get the plastic ring that remains of the filter off...
All this because my backpack (a padded camera backpack at that) fell off the hook in the rest stop bathroom. I'm beyond bummed. Something was out of place on my camera too and I almost died... but I popped it back in and it seems to be ok.
Starting to wonder about insurance... |
I have all my equipment listed on my homeowners insurance policy - it is reasonable when bundled with my house insurance. Would not help you on a photo shoot.... but definitely helps when replacing. Good Luck! |
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02/21/2010 08:19:34 AM · #4 |
haha. aw. homeowner's insurance. I don't think I'll be needing that for a looong time. That's smart though!
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02/21/2010 08:23:22 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by escapetooz:
haha. aw. homeowner's insurance. I don't think I'll be needing that for a looong time. That's smart though! |
I can relate... but renter's insurance would work as well, and it's definitely worth looking into. |
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02/21/2010 10:09:39 AM · #6 |
| Homeowners may not be the best solution. If you have to make a claim or two it could put your homeowners policy as risk of cancellation. Once that happens, good luck getting another policy for a reasonable rate. There are other insurance solutions out there. |
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02/21/2010 10:21:39 AM · #7 |
That sux. Luckily I have never broken a lens....Thats enough to make a grown man cry.
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02/21/2010 06:38:36 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by cowboy221977:
That sux. Luckily I have never broken a lens....Thats enough to make a grown man cry. |
I've broken 2 that weren't mine (work) and someone else has broken one of mine but they bought me a new one.
I tried really hard not to cry. After all I was at a Buddhist retreat and the sadness is just a passing cloud over my clear ocean (mind). Haha.
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02/21/2010 06:39:45 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by bohemka:
Originally posted by escapetooz:
haha. aw. homeowner's insurance. I don't think I'll be needing that for a looong time. That's smart though! |
I can relate... but renter's insurance would work as well, and it's definitely worth looking into. |
I'm probably not renting for a while either! I'm a world traveling gypsy and hope to be for a couple years to come. Not really. Haha. I'm just teaching English in Korea now but I do plan on traveling a bit after, maybe peace corps which is over 2 years!
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02/23/2010 10:12:39 AM · #10 |
| State Farm told me that if I listed my camera on my renter's insurance, it wouldn't matter where me and my camera were when the accident/theft happened. My camera would still be covered. I only pay $8 a month for renters with State Farm, but I do also have my auto insurance with them. |
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02/23/2010 10:17:49 AM · #11 |
Really sorry for that accident :(
Which was the backpack by the way? I recently purchased Lowe pro fastpack 350 & hope I will not see such accident with me at least (my lenses are cheaper by the way :)) |
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02/23/2010 10:50:19 AM · #12 |
i have a seperate policy for my camera gear. doesnt cover commerical work. but covers everything else.
whether home or in a kayak. if its broken its covered. i went to the agency when i set it up with my gear. and listed all the make/model and SN's with them - as well as what i paid for it. if something happens it will be replaced with a current version of comparable value, or i will be reimbursed for the cost of it.
i wouldn't suggest homeowners for the reasons mentioned above. and the policy i have is $6000 coverage for about $70 US annually.
and as far as the back pack goes. on the bottom of mine, despite that being padded, i put a couple of the divider things against the bottom for double the padding ( i even borrowed a couple from other bags i own ). the camera is fitted in the top of the bag. and the lenses are fitted so they aim perpendicular to the bottom. so if the bag falls downward, the barrels of the lenses arent pointing down. i also have most of the cheaper stuff toward the bottom ( chargers, hoods, stuff like that )
this is what i have for a bag
it made it europe and back w/o issue, and on the puddle jumper flights had to be stowed with the regular luggage due to small over head storage.
Message edited by author 2010-02-23 10:56:50.
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02/23/2010 11:26:44 AM · #13 |
It's a real downer when you have an equipment problem like that while you are home, and even worse if you are far from home and wanting to use your camera every hour to shoot those one chance shots. Even when I am traveling with my backpack full of gear, I have my trusty P&S on my belt.
My two worst lens losses happened many years apart. In about 2001, I lost a 70-210 when it rolled out of my bag and over a ledge in the Bahamas. The more recent one was when an 18-70 hopped out of a pocket in my shooting vest, and down a waterfall in Glacier N P Montana. Fortunately, I had extra lenses both times. It's not like a lens can't be replaced, but it's still not easy to get over it when one that you really like gets trashed.
Try putting on a rubber glove, then push the 85mm against your palm with the glove on and see if you can unscrew the filter ring that way. If you put even pressure against it all the way around, it may come off.
Another trick is to hold the lens pointing down, and slide an ice cube around the ring a couple of times, then quickly try to unscrew it with the rubber glove trick. The ice will cool the ring and maybe it will shrink enough to turn loose.
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02/23/2010 11:53:27 AM · #14 |
[quote=MelonMusketeer] It's a real downer when you have an equipment problem like that while you are home, and even worse if you are far from home and wanting to use your camera every hour to shoot those one chance shots. Even when I am traveling with my backpack full of gear, I have my trusty P&S on my belt.
My two worst lens losses happened many years apart. In about 2001, I lost a 70-210 when it rolled out of my bag and over a ledge in the Bahamas. The more recent one was when an 18-70 hopped out of a pocket in my shooting vest, and down a waterfall in Glacier N P Montana.
Man, I thought I felt bad, when I dropped a Kodak fun saver off a chair lift. lol
My friends behind me, did get a good laugh though...
As for the filter removal, one of those rubber strap wrenches might work. I would screw a few filters on the stuck one. Just to give more surface area for the wrench. Then give it a go. Just keep the lens off the camera though. You don't want excessive force on the lens mount. |
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02/23/2010 12:27:48 PM · #15 |
If it makes you feel any better, I dropped a camera and a lens into the cooling pool at a nuclear power plant once.
Now it's radioactive waste, probably on its way to Yucca Mountain, where I can go get it in another 10,000 years or so. |
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02/23/2010 03:34:25 PM · #16 |
| soup - where do you get your equipment insurance from? I looked into it several years ago, and it was almost as much as my auto insurance. |
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