I saw Cal drop a VERY expensive camera in the Bronx. It made my stomach sink and it wasn't even my camera. 😱
Dropped a camera!
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I saw Cal drop a VERY expensive camera in the Bronx. It made my stomach sink and it wasn't even my camera. 😱
Mlehrman
Mlehrman
RX-1 to the asphalt via slippery shoulder strap. No visible damage, but RIP manual focus mode.
ChrisPlatt
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In 1986 I tripped up a brick stairway on The Fenway in Boston.
I landed on my little Olympus 35RC. It was not pretty! My chest still hurts.
Fortunately I worked at Olympus and they still had spare parts.
More recently the wind blew a Ricoh FF-1 folder out of my hands at Fort Tilden.
Though it landed on soft beach sand the shutter never fired again.
That'll teach me not to put my hand through the wriststrap! :bang:
Chris
I landed on my little Olympus 35RC. It was not pretty! My chest still hurts.
Fortunately I worked at Olympus and they still had spare parts.
More recently the wind blew a Ricoh FF-1 folder out of my hands at Fort Tilden.
Though it landed on soft beach sand the shutter never fired again.
That'll teach me not to put my hand through the wriststrap! :bang:
Chris
SamShio
hiking/walking photog
Dropped my Olive Bessa R2 before I had the Voigtlander side grip on it. Put a nice dent/hole in the bottom corner. Hasn't effect the images at all. I had my Canon 50mm 1.4 ltm on it as well and dented the filter that I had on it, lens is still fine, no problems. Lucked out other then the noticeable dent in the corner of the camera.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
That was rude. The camera had been overhauled and had just gotten a MP finder upgrade from Sherry, so the M6HM (0.85 VF'er) was factory fresh. The filter (MRC) was damaged and mucho small dings all over the body. Anyways I have a strong immune system. The sick feeling kinda passed rapidly. Oh-well.
Good thing is I had another camera with me (Wetzlar M6). I had already bonded with my M6 and if this camera took the hit it definitely would have been more painful.
Cal
kuuan
loves old lenses
dropped a Pentax *istDs twice, both times on hard asphalt / concrete floors and because the neck strap dangling from the camera was caught somewhere. Both times the filter thread of the mounted Takumar 1.4/50 got a dent and both camera and lens continued working like before, then I took off the neck strap and have not used any nor dropped a camera ever since 😉
