ChrisPlatt
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A tripod is a lever designed to multiply camera destroying force.
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What have you just DROPPED?
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barnwulf
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I was trying to attach my user M4 to a tripod one time and I thought I had the camera threaded onto the mounting screw and must have lost my concentration. I let go of the camera it crashed 5 ft. to the cement floor landing on it's bottom corner of the film canister side. My heart sank and stopped for a moment. Big dent on the bottom corner and the bottom plate was destroyed. The camera body was bent and I couldn't get my film out. The lens had no marks on it at all so I was lucky there. I traded the camera off to Youxin and got a very nice IIIc in trade. I felt absolutely sick for a few days. - jim
zozur
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Are you serious? Entry level mechanical watches for few thousands bucks? For me entry level mechanical watch is 30$ Slava or Wostok, full jeweled, or maybe for new watch 200$ Orient. And under 400$ you can get Vintage mechanical chronograph like Poljot 3133.
I dropped Fed 2 with I-61 and filter ring is little bent.
newst
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I just let an M-Rokkor 90mm slip out of my hand and hit the tile floor. The filter ring isn't circular anymore. I've sent it out for repair so we'll see what it is like when I get it back.
B-9
Devin Bro
Once dropped a lens cell from a 35/2.0 Nikkor while doing a deep clean, needless to say it was dust on the shop floor. Actually sold the lens for parts and got my money back.
Mark A. Fisher
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Several years ago I bought a Yashica-Mat 124G from a friend of mine, sent it off to be CLA'd and a new light meter installed. When I got it back I took it to the school where I was teaching photography to show some students. I opened the back door of my truck and it promptly tumbled to the asphalt parking lot, breaking the brand new meter unit. Great object lesson for my students - and me.
The camera works great. The meter? Not so much.
The camera works great. The meter? Not so much.
Spavinaw
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I have three broken filters but zero bent lenses. You bet your sweet bippy I keep a filter, usually skylight, on my lenses at all times.
GoodOldNorm
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I can't tell you the memory is too painfull 😱
dee
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Diagnosed with dyspraxia so a permanent danger to moving objects !
Frequently dropped my shoulder bag with a Fuji XF1 compact ... and more recently , my X-Pro 1 .
Mercifully no damage !
i've bounced a few Minolta SRTs in my time - goodness , they are tough !
I went headfirst into the mud with a Pentax K10D mercifully mounted with an old Pentax 35-80 FA which suffered scratches which I touched up with silver paint !!
Frequently dropped my shoulder bag with a Fuji XF1 compact ... and more recently , my X-Pro 1 .
Mercifully no damage !
i've bounced a few Minolta SRTs in my time - goodness , they are tough !
I went headfirst into the mud with a Pentax K10D mercifully mounted with an old Pentax 35-80 FA which suffered scratches which I touched up with silver paint !!
FujiLove
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Last night I managed to completely pull one of the taps off my Nova tank as I attempted to drain off some developer. I ended up covered in Fotospeed WT10 from chest to toe, though thankfully didn't get any in the face.
Not really a drop, but the tap did fly across the room as I leaped out of the way of the spraying developer. I just managed to retrieve it with one hand and keep the other over the drain pipe.
It's always fun in the darkroom.
Not really a drop, but the tap did fly across the room as I leaped out of the way of the spraying developer. I just managed to retrieve it with one hand and keep the other over the drain pipe.
It's always fun in the darkroom.
oftheherd
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Jake Mongey
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michaelwj
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My Sekonic L-398 light meter (and only light meter). The incident light dome smashed into about 7 pieces. The superglue is now dry and all appears to be working again thankfully - although it won't lock on a reading, but I can't remember if it did that before?
ForestCap
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Last week I dropped my Kiev-4A on a pair of dumbbell, no kidding. A small dent on the film advance knob but otherwise Nothing was damaged.
michaelwj
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Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
I dropped my Nikon F2 two days ago. Slid right off the desk onto the hardwood floor after I bumped a keyboard.
The floor is ok.
Phil Forrest
The floor is ok.
Phil Forrest
presspass
filmshooter
Nothing so far today, but there are hours to go yet. The most recent was an M6TTl with rapidwinder and 135 2.8 Elmarit. The Elmarit had to go to DAG for calibration; the camera was fine. The worst one, and it was years ago, was an F-3 with MD4 and 400 2.8 that came loose from the monopod over my shoulder and rolled down a bank at a high school football game. No real damage to the camera or lens - it was a nice grassy bank - but my ego took a pounding from the applause I got while I chased it down the hill.
newst
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Just recently an M-Rokkor 4.0/90. Just being clumsy while trying to do too many things at the same time. Almost caught it, but not quite. Landed on a tile floor at the edge of the filter ring. As it happens I was just wrapping another lens to ship off for a CLA so I packed them both and had the filter ring professionally repaired.
Nokton48
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Spider67
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i took ou my D 700 the strap caught my 85mm/f2 which fell frontside first on the stoen pavement. Luckily the lens was in a poucht and I had a lenscap and an UV filter screwed i. Well the lens cap and the filter made their way to he great beyond....It was impossible to separate them
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