Camera Fatalities
Jan 2, 2012 17:20:17 #
jackinthebox,
great story! Its conforting to know there are honest and good people in this world.
great story! Its conforting to know there are honest and good people in this world.
Jan 2, 2012 18:02:32 #
My Olympus SP-590 UZ fell off my bed (while in the case). It still works, but looking through the viewfinder I can see a curved black area that also shows up in the photos. It's on the edge so I can crop it out, but I was sick about it...that camera served me well. After about a year of cropping I got my Canon Rebel T3!
Jan 2, 2012 18:37:13 #
frasher101
Loc: Houndsfield N.Y.
Will now, I was shooting a Catapillar show. At that time I had a Canon range finder and set it down on the track of a dozer. As I walking Back to my car (1956 Mercury Monclair with full wheel covers, radio and backup lights,wow)Well now somebody started the dozer, backed up,rolled the
camera on the ground and crunched it.
B U T
Years later with my Canon TLb I had set the camera down
to change lens and the skinny BIC pen slipped from my ear
point first and hit that stupid widdddle plastic window over the film counter.
camera on the ground and crunched it.
B U T
Years later with my Canon TLb I had set the camera down
to change lens and the skinny BIC pen slipped from my ear
point first and hit that stupid widdddle plastic window over the film counter.
Jan 2, 2012 18:41:08 #
About 40 years ago I was hiking in Northern British Columbia, far away from any civilization. As a camera I had a 1933 Leica. I was changing film, which was not easy on those cameras, just as I was doing that someone yelled behind me "Hi there" I was so shocked, turned around and knocked the camera off the log into the fast running river. Good bye Leica forever.
Jan 2, 2012 19:17:45 #
MT Shooter wrote:
With a name like UncleWiggley I just had to question the authenticity of the comment is all! LOL
Unclewiggley wrote:
Sorry!,I guess I should re-read my post before sending -LOL Guess I haven't trained my keyboard to well.
With a name like UncleWiggley I just had to question the authenticity of the comment is all! LOL
UNCLE WIGGLEY! I loved those stories when I was a child! Great handle!
rjriggins11 wrote:
I'm a camera technician ............. If there's a way some people can destroy something, someone will find it.
You should write a book rj! LOL
Jan 2, 2012 19:28:55 #
My first and only mishap (hoping for the rest of my days) was my second digital camera. I had it about 1 1/2yrs, and I was wanting to upgrade, BUT! I was in my living room, replacing the SD card after uploading..... the camera simply fell through my hands, landed on the corner of the camera, on the carpet, in an area that seldom ever saw a foot print (so it was very soft and thick). I picked it up holding my breath and nothing, NOTHING. So I figured what do I have to lose, so I dropped it again, then it worked (no way to compose or view the photos, but it still took pictures).
A month or so later I got my upgrade :roll:
A month or so later I got my upgrade :roll:
Jan 2, 2012 21:14:22 #
For the past 7 or 8 years I've been using a Panasonic DMC-LZ7 for my pocket/bike/car camera. I've dropped it twice, once on it's lens barrel. There's a gash on the edge of the barrel, but it still works fine, still sharp. How's that for build quality
Jan 2, 2012 21:41:11 #
Jan 2, 2012 21:42:50 #
alycat wrote:
For the past 7 or 8 years I've been using a Panasonic DMC-LZ7 for my pocket/bike/car camera. I've dropped it twice, once on it's lens barrel. There's a gash on the edge of the barrel, but it still works fine, still sharp. How's that for build quality
Like 3 a day? That can only increase with lighter cameras being build and just about anyone over age 12 having 1 or more cameras. Good luck, it looks like you are in a growing field.
Jan 2, 2012 21:54:24 #
hippiegirl wrote:
jackinthebox,
great story! Its conforting to know there are honest and good people in this world.
great story! Its conforting to know there are honest and good people in this world.
Thank you. I have similar experiences in the great city of NY where people treated me very well. I came back, from a year in South Africa, by ship in the port of Brooklyn and kissed the ground on the dock before setting out to rent a car to drive to Ohio. Coming into a very busy, multiple streets intersection, I lost it completely. After driving on the left side of the road for a year a found myself doing just that. I froze and was astonished that traffic just magically stopped and other drivers smiling at me waved me on in the right direction.
Another moment in time when instead getting that freezing feeling one gets that warm glow of being home amongst loved ones. After 30 some years, I still remember and love that feeling.
Sorry I did not mean to hi-jack the camera subject.
Jan 2, 2012 22:14:26 #
If you are hand holding a Canon 60D and dismounting your brand new 5080EX ii you need three hands or a quick foot to kick the flash on the way down to change the angle of impact to the floor. No damage whatsoever thanks to the 580 sliding along a slick tile floor
This should be in the instruction manual.
This should be in the instruction manual.
Jan 2, 2012 22:21:50 #
Jan 2, 2012 22:32:53 #
rjriggins11
Loc: Colorado Springs, CO
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.
Jan 2, 2012 22:43:29 #
My first camera disaster was a Zeiss Ikon worn around my neck as my plane was catapulted off an aircraft carrier. Six seconds later both plane and camera were dead in the South China Sea. A few years later my Pentax k100 had a similar fate. Three years later while visiting Athens, I got out of a cab to photograph some ruins, to realize I'd left my Nikon FTN and 105mm lens in the cab. Running back to the five lane street I saw dozens of cabs...all painted the same as the one I had left...and hailed one down. There in the back seat was my Nikon...and I also almost cried (with relief)!
Jan 2, 2012 23:02:56 #
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.
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