Camera Fatalities
Jan 3, 2012 00:31:38 #
Jackinthebox wrote:
I have entered your url in my information folder. I will be happy if I never need it but very happy when I do.
rjriggins11 wrote:
Just remember. Just because you break them doesn't mean you have to throw them away. I repair them for a living and it's a lot less expensive to repair than it is to replace.
I have entered your url in my information folder. I will be happy if I never need it but very happy when I do.
Me, too!
Jan 3, 2012 00:36:14 #
How to lose $2400 in 24 seconds. Worth a look. I think that is Haystack rock near Cannon Beach, OR in the distance..
http://www.wimp.com/loseseconds/
http://www.wimp.com/loseseconds/
Jan 3, 2012 01:02:57 #
Lucian
Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio
I was doing some flight training in the Chanook helicopter flight simulator at Ft.Campbell, KY and had taken in my Nikon N7??? something, the body numbers were different in the UK to the body numbers in the USA I recall, however, I can't remember the exact number and I don't want to get out of bed and run upstairs to look at the camera. It was one of the plastic Nikon bodies though which had electric film advance.
I had fitted the SB flash to it to take few shots inside the cockpit before my time to start, and placed it on a shelf behind me. During the training flight the instructor induced some severe turbulence to the flight, you never knew what you might be in for in the simulator. I suddenly heard a thud that was not a normal sound you would expect to hear during the flight, wondered what that had been and carried on with the task at hand.
At the end of the session I unstrapped, got out of my seat and turned to collect my camera, but it was not there. Then I recalled that unusual sound I heard and knew what had happened. I found the camera on the cockpit floor but there was no longer a flash fitted to the hotshoe. There was also no longer a hotshoe fitted to the camera either.
There was however, a large hole where it has been and a band of electronic ribbon sticking out through the hole with a clean tear at the end. I looked around and found the flash still attached to the hotshoe and a little piece of electronic ribbon attached to the underside of it.
I was thankful that the camera still appeared to work, despite the torn electrons, though no more flash was going to be possible with this unit. I put a large piece of black 100MPH tape over the hole and continued using the camera for a long time.
Now it is a relic of the days of film, still has the same piece of tape on the top of the pentaprism as a reminder of that day. And it still works fine, though I now never leave a flash fitted to a camera if I have finished using it.
I had fitted the SB flash to it to take few shots inside the cockpit before my time to start, and placed it on a shelf behind me. During the training flight the instructor induced some severe turbulence to the flight, you never knew what you might be in for in the simulator. I suddenly heard a thud that was not a normal sound you would expect to hear during the flight, wondered what that had been and carried on with the task at hand.
At the end of the session I unstrapped, got out of my seat and turned to collect my camera, but it was not there. Then I recalled that unusual sound I heard and knew what had happened. I found the camera on the cockpit floor but there was no longer a flash fitted to the hotshoe. There was also no longer a hotshoe fitted to the camera either.
There was however, a large hole where it has been and a band of electronic ribbon sticking out through the hole with a clean tear at the end. I looked around and found the flash still attached to the hotshoe and a little piece of electronic ribbon attached to the underside of it.
I was thankful that the camera still appeared to work, despite the torn electrons, though no more flash was going to be possible with this unit. I put a large piece of black 100MPH tape over the hole and continued using the camera for a long time.
Now it is a relic of the days of film, still has the same piece of tape on the top of the pentaprism as a reminder of that day. And it still works fine, though I now never leave a flash fitted to a camera if I have finished using it.
Jan 3, 2012 01:28:11 #
Lucian
Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio
Years earlier I was going out to my car, with a largish box of gear and my Nikon FT2 camera and 50mm lens attached. I placed the camera on the roof of the car while I retrieved my car keys from my trouser pocket. I unlocked the door and bent forward to put the box across onto the passenger seat. I then reached around the edge of the car door and extracted my car keys, slid into my seat and started the engine.
I checked my mirros and gently pulled away and added throttle. Then I heard, just for a second, a sort of sliding noise come from the roof of my car, then silence. Time seemed to slow down and an uneasy feeling came over me. The same sort of uneasy feeling you get when your girl friend rings you up and says... "we need to talk".
That same sort of feeling you get when the dentist lowers the back rest of your chair and says "don't worry, you shouldn't feel a thing". That rather sickly feeling you get in the pit of your stomach, when on lift off, you hear a muffled thud, feel a little shudder and just notice out of the corner of your eye, a whisp of dark smoke pop out the back of the number two engine. You know the feeling, I'm sure we've all been there at one time or other in our lives.
Yes, time seemed to slow down, and as I quickly glanced in my rear view mirror, I saw a dark streak and then a slow realization of what had happened, came over me. I then saw the camera come into view behind the car, flipping, bouncing and rolling down the road behind me. Damn, I left the camera on the roof, DAMN!!!
I hit the brakes, jump out and ran back, expecting to pick up and expensive baby's rattled. As I lifted that poor camera gently off the ground, I gave it a slight shake, in order to hear all the glass sloshing around inside the body. To my surprise and elation, I heard nothing. Had I suddenly gone daef, I thought, this can't be?
Unbelievable, there was nothing loose or broken, just a small dent on the pentaprism, a top corner of the body and a chip of glass had broken off the viewing screen at the corner, inside the pentaprism but nothing else wrong at all. I had hoped the chip was from the interchangable viewing screens but it was not to be.
It was actually from the screen at the base of the pentaprism and was not a removable piece. I just lived with that chip from then on, rather than pay for the repair. The lens was perfectly fine as well, not a mark on it. I could not believe my luck, nor stupidity. They don't make cameras like that anymore, those old metal bodies and lens barrels were built like Brick sh#@ houses.
I checked my mirros and gently pulled away and added throttle. Then I heard, just for a second, a sort of sliding noise come from the roof of my car, then silence. Time seemed to slow down and an uneasy feeling came over me. The same sort of uneasy feeling you get when your girl friend rings you up and says... "we need to talk".
That same sort of feeling you get when the dentist lowers the back rest of your chair and says "don't worry, you shouldn't feel a thing". That rather sickly feeling you get in the pit of your stomach, when on lift off, you hear a muffled thud, feel a little shudder and just notice out of the corner of your eye, a whisp of dark smoke pop out the back of the number two engine. You know the feeling, I'm sure we've all been there at one time or other in our lives.
Yes, time seemed to slow down, and as I quickly glanced in my rear view mirror, I saw a dark streak and then a slow realization of what had happened, came over me. I then saw the camera come into view behind the car, flipping, bouncing and rolling down the road behind me. Damn, I left the camera on the roof, DAMN!!!
I hit the brakes, jump out and ran back, expecting to pick up and expensive baby's rattled. As I lifted that poor camera gently off the ground, I gave it a slight shake, in order to hear all the glass sloshing around inside the body. To my surprise and elation, I heard nothing. Had I suddenly gone daef, I thought, this can't be?
Unbelievable, there was nothing loose or broken, just a small dent on the pentaprism, a top corner of the body and a chip of glass had broken off the viewing screen at the corner, inside the pentaprism but nothing else wrong at all. I had hoped the chip was from the interchangable viewing screens but it was not to be.
It was actually from the screen at the base of the pentaprism and was not a removable piece. I just lived with that chip from then on, rather than pay for the repair. The lens was perfectly fine as well, not a mark on it. I could not believe my luck, nor stupidity. They don't make cameras like that anymore, those old metal bodies and lens barrels were built like Brick sh#@ houses.
Jan 3, 2012 02:57:51 #
Definitely Haystack Rock.. Welcome to the north coast, and don't turn your back..
Jan 3, 2012 04:17:16 #
I'm so mad at my self i was taking a pic today of a dog and dropped my sony digi cam on the patio
I mean its in a billion parts its not expensive but now I have to buy a new cam
this happened back in 1985 and then 2 days after my computer burned up its hard drive and lost all my photos witch sucked cuz i was going to burn them to a dvd over 700 photos poop gone :(
I mean its in a billion parts its not expensive but now I have to buy a new cam
this happened back in 1985 and then 2 days after my computer burned up its hard drive and lost all my photos witch sucked cuz i was going to burn them to a dvd over 700 photos poop gone :(
Jan 3, 2012 11:24:25 #
In 2000 I went to London with my soon-to-be fiancée. I had with me a new Nikon Coolpix 900S. The second day of the trip we went to the Tower of London. We got out at a Metro stop that overlooked the Tower. There was a short circular wall atop the hill, and I stood on top of it to get a better look. When I hopped down my foot landed in an angled drainage ring which ran around the inside of the wall. My ankle twisted underneath me and down I went. My camera was around my neck, and it hit the concrete ground hard.
The result was a very badly sprained ankle and a broken camera. I could barely walk the rest of the trip, but worse was I could take no pictures!
The result was a very badly sprained ankle and a broken camera. I could barely walk the rest of the trip, but worse was I could take no pictures!
Jan 3, 2012 18:40:55 #
Years ago, I had a rangefnder camera - an Agfa, I believe, although the particular model number has been long forgotten. When I was reassigned to Hawaii, I learned on my first outing to a real beach that cameras really don't fare very well in ocean water. I didn't drop the camera, mind, just was standing in the surf and lowered my hand. Not a very dramatic story, but I did kill my camera.
Dave K
Dave K
Jan 4, 2012 14:21:07 #
For fast shots I often have the camera hanging from my belt. I flew into Caracas a day of shooting a Karate tournament. I had forgotten about the camera, as I stood up from a seat in the rest room. The camera went into the bowl, and the film was soaked. Needless to say, there are no do overs for that kind of shoot.
Jan 4, 2012 16:51:40 #
Before I had the intelligence to have a backup camera, I pulled my Mamiya 645 of a table that I had set it on when I stepped away without disconnecting the power cable from the quantum battery attached to my belt. It fell hard on the right rear lower corner and the back popped open. I was able to close the bent back and had to shoot the rest of the wedding with that camera not knowing if it still worked! I only lost two exposures. Talk about horseshoes!!!
Jan 7, 2012 11:08:49 #
PixelBill
Loc: Holliston MA
Back in 71 I left my Pentax Super Program in the car all night in January at a motel in VT. The temperature got really low during the night. Next morning I put the camera on the floor near the heater to warm it up. When I saw a beautiful scene and wanted to capture it the inexpensive zoom lens broke when I tried to focus it.
Jan 8, 2012 19:23:06 #
My old film Minolta... Many years ago, I was in Australia at a zoo, & was in an enclosure with kangaroos (friendly little guys, too!) I had set my camera on the ground while I scratched a kangaroo's ears; he then hopped off with his foot caught in my camera strap. Of course that freaked him out & he took off, with my camera bouncing along behind him... parts & pieces scattering all over the place. I do believe I wept.
Jan 8, 2012 20:04:34 #
Three years ago, I was bringing a big, beautiful 44 foot Nautiline Houseboat that I had bought that morning, to my marina. It was a days journey. I was on that last hour of the journey when there was a motor fire and the boat burned to the water line. My wife and I escaped with what we had on our backs. However, my Sony SureShot went "down with the ship." The positive side of the story is that the insurance paid for everything and it propelled me into the DSLR realm and the Canon camp. I did lose a lot of great photo I had taken
of my new houseboat! LOL
Jan 8, 2012 20:14:18 #
rjriggins11 wrote:
Just remember. Just because you break them doesn't mean you have to throw them away. I repair them for a living and it's a lot less expensive to repair than it is to replace.
Good to know! I've got your info from your website.
Dec 11, 2012 23:58:16 #
While doing a photo shoot on the Austin Yacht Club docks last month, I took one giant step to the left for the perfect shot and KERSPLASH, fell into 40' of water with my Nikon D90 and SB600. After five days in dry-dock, aka Tupperware and silica gel bags on a bed of rice, both the camera and flash survived -- and so did the 49 photos!
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