Has anyone ever broken one of your cameras?

[JohnTF]

I think I posted this once before...

I was being so extremely careful when changing lenses on a IIIf, and forgot that I didn't have a strap on the camera, and let it slip from my fingers. I made a sprawling, flailing, NHL goalie quality 'save' and kept it from hitting the floor.

Then, I realized I had just put my thumb through the shutter.

Oh, and it was my father's IIIf. I took it that afternoon to get a new shutter. Needed one anyway, was getting frayed, so it was more humorous than costly.

Still, a lot easier to get a new shutter than to replace the damaged body parts, and am sure you looked much cooler during the incident. Only thing better would have been to get a video of the whole thing, you could have paid for the shutter by donations from people watching?

You could have cut in people holding up cards for degree of difficulty, etc.

And, those repair guys have families to feed. ;-)

All in all, I would give you an 8.5 at least.

John