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Sep 6, 2017 06:31:15   #
fuminous Loc: Luling, LA... for now...
 
That's happened to my Nikon- picked up the camera with fingers between lens and release... 70-200 rotated right out of the mount and dropped straight to the pavement. I don't do that anymore...

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Sep 6, 2017 07:01:52   #
jam Loc: Beaufort, NC
 
I had this happen to me. The problem was that when I put my camera in the camera bag the dividers would hit the lens release button. I had this happen twice before I figured it out.

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Sep 6, 2017 07:14:24   #
Fotomacher Loc: Toronto
 
billnikon wrote:
After parking my car on the street in a shady section of town I woke the next morning to discover my lug nuts had all unscrewed themselves from the wheels of each tire and my tires had disappeared. I still can't figure out how those lug nuts unscrewed themselves. Can anyone help me out, I just can't figure out how this could happen... Has anyone experienced this kind of mishap?


I was in Africa last year using a D810 with a 300mm f/4 lens mounted. To save time, I hung the rig from a loop on the outside of my pack and when I put the pack on, the whole thing fell off and hit the hard stone floor of the lodge. The lens separated from the camera body taking the bayonet mount with it. Spontaneously. Weird, eh?

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Sep 6, 2017 07:38:00   #
Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI
 
Been shooting Olympus gear since 2007...never had a lens fall off. Must be Operator Error.

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Sep 6, 2017 08:05:31   #
joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois
 
billnikon wrote:
After parking my car on the street in a shady section of town I woke the next morning to discover my lug nuts had all unscrewed themselves from the wheels of each tire and my tires had disappeared. I still can't figure out how those lug nuts unscrewed themselves. Can anyone help me out, I just can't figure out how this could happen... Has anyone experienced this kind of mishap?


good one.

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Sep 6, 2017 08:17:16   #
Festus Loc: North Dakota
 
PierreD wrote:
A friend of mine owes two camera systems: An Olympus EM5 II that he uses with an Olympus 300 mm lens, and a Panasonic GX85 that he uses with a Panasonic/Leica 100-400 mm.

He indicates that in the recent past, and using one of his rigs and at another time the other rig, he had the lens just separate from the camera and hit the pavement while he was carrying his equipment using a shoulder strap. These incidents did fortunately not cause fatal damage - just a couple of dents to the lens hoods. Being a mechanical engineer, he seems 100% sure that in both cases, the lenses were initially securely fastened (clicked into place) to the camera bodies, and so can't come up with any good explanation for what happened that caused the lenses to "spontaneously" separate from the camera bodies. I can't understand either how this could happen based on the mechanical system that attaches lenses to camera bodies... Has anyone experienced this kind of mishap?
A friend of mine owes two camera systems: An Olymp... (show quote)


You need to read the post by Sharpshooter: "It's Always The 12 Inches Behind The Camera...., Except When It's Not!!!". Sounds as if your friend only has "5 inches"!

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Sep 6, 2017 09:22:38   #
markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ
 
I had it happen once. My fault - I was a bit careless mounting the lens. I was lucky - I was in my car when it fell.
Mark
PierreD wrote:
A friend of mine owes two camera systems: An Olympus EM5 II that he uses with an Olympus 300 mm lens, and a Panasonic GX85 that he uses with a Panasonic/Leica 100-400 mm.

He indicates that in the recent past, and using one of his rigs and at another time the other rig, he had the lens just separate from the camera and hit the pavement while he was carrying his equipment using a shoulder strap. These incidents did fortunately not cause fatal damage - just a couple of dents to the lens hoods. Being a mechanical engineer, he seems 100% sure that in both cases, the lenses were initially securely fastened (clicked into place) to the camera bodies, and so can't come up with any good explanation for what happened that caused the lenses to "spontaneously" separate from the camera bodies. I can't understand either how this could happen based on the mechanical system that attaches lenses to camera bodies... Has anyone experienced this kind of mishap?
A friend of mine owes two camera systems: An Olymp... (show quote)

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Sep 6, 2017 09:33:31   #
gsmith051 Loc: Fairfield Glade, TN
 
Pierre...I thought I did a lot of things from time to time but didn't. One thing I'm sure about if my lens locks on it doesn't come off. At least not in the last fifty years. 😃

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Sep 6, 2017 09:47:09   #
leftj Loc: Texas
 
billnikon wrote:
Must have been an immaculate connection.


you mean dis-connection.

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Sep 6, 2017 09:55:13   #
PierreD
 

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Sep 6, 2017 10:03:06   #
aellman Loc: Boston MA
 
rmorrison1116 wrote:
Interesting, this is not the first time I've heard or read about this happening. Not even the first time I've read about it here on UHH.
I've tried to simulate this with both Canon and Nikon bodies and different size lenses and as hard as I've tried, I could not get the lens to detach. I'd say the odds are far greater there was human error at play than mechanical failure.


Engineer or not, listen for that very distinctive click. >Alan

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Sep 6, 2017 10:12:56   #
suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ
 
Hmm both of those lenses mentioned are heavy lenses for the camera bodies mentioned. Is it possible that the lens mount or mechanism that holds the lenses is not adequate when walking with the lens pointed down? Too much weight?

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Sep 6, 2017 10:36:23   #
tjjm Loc: Saint Louis, Mo.
 
Carrying the camera on a strap the "unlock" button was bumped or hit on his hip or something.

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Sep 6, 2017 10:45:34   #
jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ
 
I had a body come off my lens when I was holding the barrel of my lens as I was transferring from a Zodiac raft kind of boat to a large yacht in rough seas. The body came off mid step and landed on the wooden deck of the yacht and I lost my balance and had to step backwards to the Zodiac. At the same time the yacht leaned toward the Zodiac and the camera body started to slide toward the Zodiac and it would have slid into the sea so I kicked it back onto the deck of the yacht.

Now, I know what happened. I had the barrel of the lens in my grip and part of my hand was against the lens release button. Both of my hands were full because I was using two cameras. I couldn't just let them swing from the straps and bang into each other or the sides of the ship etc. The camera, Canon 5D Mark III, still worked fine but had some cosmetic damage. When I got home from the Galapagos Islands I took it to be repaired at a cost of $600. Lesson learned about the button.

PierreD wrote:
A friend of mine owes two camera systems: An Olympus EM5 II that he uses with an Olympus 300 mm lens, and a Panasonic GX85 that he uses with a Panasonic/Leica 100-400 mm.

He indicates that in the recent past, and using one of his rigs and at another time the other rig, he had the lens just separate from the camera and hit the pavement while he was carrying his equipment using a shoulder strap. These incidents did fortunately not cause fatal damage - just a couple of dents to the lens hoods. Being a mechanical engineer, he seems 100% sure that in both cases, the lenses were initially securely fastened (clicked into place) to the camera bodies, and so can't come up with any good explanation for what happened that caused the lenses to "spontaneously" separate from the camera bodies. I can't understand either how this could happen based on the mechanical system that attaches lenses to camera bodies... Has anyone experienced this kind of mishap?
A friend of mine owes two camera systems: An Olymp... (show quote)

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Sep 6, 2017 10:51:40   #
leftj Loc: Texas
 
jeep_daddy wrote:
I had a body come off my lens when I was holding the barrel of my lens as I was transferring from a Zodiac raft kind of boat to a large yacht in rough seas. The body came off mid step and landed on the wooden deck of the yacht and I lost my balance and had to step backwards to the Zodiac. At the same time the yacht leaned toward the Zodiac and the camera body started to slide toward the Zodiac and it would have slid into the sea so I kicked it back onto the deck of the yacht.

Now, I know what happened. I had the barrel of the lens in my grip and part of my hand was against the lens release button. Both of my hands were full because I was using two cameras. I couldn't just let them swing from the straps and bang into each other or the sides of the ship etc. The camera, Canon 5D Mark III, still worked fine but had some cosmetic damage. When I got home from the Galapagos Islands I took it to be repaired at a cost of $600. Lesson learned about the button.
I had a body come off my lens when I was holding t... (show quote)


WOW! To bad your experience wasn't recorded. Would have been a sure winner on funniest home videos.

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