I dropped my Canon P

[benm3]

I dropped my canon P yesterday. Actually, 40 MPH winds blew my tripod over while I was fiddling with a lens in my camera bag. The fall was so bad that it bent my hood (a $60 dollar Canon hood!) beyond repair. Needless to say, I was pretty concerned about my poor P. Nothing seemed broken, but I was sure that such a fall would have messed with my shutter speeds. So I tested all of the shutter speeds by taking a shot of the same subject against a brick wall at all speeds from one second to 1/1000.

Perfect exposure on every shot!

I love my P, and I have promised it that I won't sell it to fund a new Leica MP.

How many "new" cameras do you think are as tough as the old Canon P?

 

[ChrisN]

Close call! And a lucky landing too! Shame about the hood - keep it as a trophy.

 

[Chuck A]

I did that to a Leica hood once. Not a fun thing. Your stomach is in knots.

 

[FrankS]

You're lucky that hood absorbed the collision with the ground. How's the RF? That is more likely to be affected than the shutter speeds.

 

[VictorM.]

Frank has a good question-I dropped my Canon P a short distance and had the finder separate. Check it carefully, along with focus accuracy.

 

[John]

OUCH ! :bang: That hurts. I feel for you man. 🙁

 

[benm3]

The rangefinder looks ok.... Vertical and horizontal seems to match up, and the test photos I made came out in focus. Only time will tell, but I think I narrowly avoided a real disaster.

 

[back alley]

me too click here


joe

 

[FrankS]

Good news!

 

[benm3]

I'm pretty lucky. The P fell on on grass, not on concrete. Though the impact was enough to ruin my hood, I suspect having the hood on helped in the long run.

My lens (a minty canon 50mm 1.5) seems fine too, though the yellow filter I had on got a pretty nasty scratch.

The lesson I'm getting here is that it's better to drop your camera on grass than a rock, and always, always have a filter on your lens.

Another lesson: don't walk away from your tripod when a 40 mph wind is blowing.

I maybe don't deserve my P 🙂

 

[peterm1]

" I maybe don't deserve my P "

thats right you definitely do not. I will have it 😀

 

[rover]

...another vote to always use hoods and filters.

 

[peterm1]

Seriously though I hate it when this happens.

A few years back I had recently bought a nice M4P in lovely condition. I was carrying it in a camera bag and while looking for some money to board a bus put it down on the bench. Somehow it slipped off (I kinda think my klutzy girlfriend at the time may have been the trigger - although I blame myself for being careless and putting it there in the first place) and when I looked up from rummaging in my wallet there it was (still in the bag) laying on the cold hard concrete. Although the drop was only about 18 inchs and although it was in a well padded bag it still managed to put a small ding in the edge of the top plate.

Do you think I was p#ssed? WELL YES!

Happily the dent was small (although it loooked like the grand canyon to me) and no mechanical or structural damage was done and I have had many years of happy use since.