THonk!!!!!

[trev2401]

So, thought i'd start a thread to lament about my carelessness..


Tis a bright and lively new year's day in Tokyo (jan 1st 08), and here I am with my wife at Kamakura, visiting the many shrines there to enjoy the Japanese new year festivities.....

In my right hand, i had my trusty R2a decked out with the 12mm and all its nick nacks. (rapid rewind lever,spirit level, double hot shoe thingy, VF, 77mm filter adapter, etc) In my right, i had a lil nikon 8400 for the digital side, and also my wife hanging on for dear life to me.

Atmosphere was awesome, colours around me were wonderful, i was burning my 3rd roll of fortia (velvia's crazier brother) when some nutball suddenly bumped my R2a out of my hand as i was shooting!

The fall from my face height, was around 5ft 8, and the R2a hit the ground rewind knob first.... THONK! T

I stopped breathing!

oh well... to cut it short, there was no damage to the lens, as the 77mm filter thread did a great job of protecting the lens, but the R2a withstood the drop pretty well. there was NO dent to the body, only a 1/4 inch section of paint gone. The RF was slightly vertically off, and i proceeded to pry the hotshoe protector off, to unscrew the hotshoe to re;-align the patch.

After 30 mins of work, i was back shooting!

I love my bessa R2a, and for those thinking of getting one. Get it.. it's worth it.

🙂

 

[Robin Harrison]

Not so dramatic a tale:

2nd Jan, Geneva airport. I was faffing around with my bags.

thonk (with a small 't').

'What was that? And why is my Crumpler bag flapping around? Oh look, my M8 is on the floor. How strange.'

From waist height, the Leica had flipped out of the bag as it tipped up, but had landed, in what would be a perfect 6.0 in gymnastics, square on it's Luigi-protected base. Not a jot, not a mark, not a single problem.

And it probably shook that darn dust off the sensor. 🙂 🙂

 

[Mr_Flibble]

I bet your heart skipped a few beats before you could inspect the (luckily absent) damage.

 

[jolefler]

Coincidentally

Coincidentally

I dropped my Barnack for the first time yesterday. No case, no foot-save, on concrete. Although I can't find any damage, I'm STILL upset about it!

I just keep telling myself: "It can't be the first time it's hit the floor since 1937!"

When I dropped my first digicam years ago, it proved quite fatal to the devise....cost as much to make it right as to buy a new one. But, it's been working well ever since.

My sympathy, glad it's OK.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Heh, my Canon IXUS V2 digicam has bounced of more floors then I care to remember, it's got a nice dent in one corners of the housing. It gears are grinding from all the lose dirt inside it. And now after 5 years of service the battery is starting to wear out.....but it still works!
I still give a friend grief over the fact that he dropped it on a tiled kitchen floor once. 😀

I doubt any of my other cameras are quite so "robust".

 

[ibcrewin]

I've clocked my kid on the back of the head by accident with my bessa R. Reaching down in to a stroller or bending down to help her out, the camera swings around my neck and.. Whack!

 

[shadowfox]

I once "thonk"ed my little girl on the forehead with an Olympus 310 flash (not small!) that slid out of the hotshoe on the big flash grip. I forgot what I did to the E-300 on my right hand because I just remember picking her up.

At moments like this priorities do align themselves 🙂

 

[SolaresLarrave]

And here I was, thinking it was a mispelled "Thanks" thread! 🙂

 

[Pherdinand]

hmm. Now that i think of it, strange that i never dropped any gear!

 

[Vagabond]

So, thought i'd start a thread to lament about my carelessness..



The fall from my face height, was around 5ft 8, and the R2a hit the ground rewind knob first.... THONK! T

I stopped breathing!

🙂

Fortunately I have never dropped my R2a but I vividly remember dropping an SLR. Seeing it tumble through the air in slow motion and then hit the ground right on the corner of the lens was something that I won't soon forget. The filter shattered and was bent but it did save the lens. No damaged threads or anything.

Since then, I always use a wrist strap when walking around shooting. The camera is always ready to go and I don't have to worry (much) about dropping it.