You know how sometimes in the shower the soap will slip out of your hands...?

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... and you catch it, mid air, and think about that scene in American Ninja when the coffee cup slips off the table and the ninja catches it... well let me tell you a story of tragedy averted...
It was a dark and stormy sunny California afternoon, I wanted something from the gas station a nice walk away, so I headed out with my M3 and 90mm summicron (my only lens for it...) and went for a nice naturey walk. I was walking along the street and just decided to focus on a tree as I approached, working the stiffness out of the old joints of the 90s focus, practicing with the rangefinder, whatever, raised it up focused and the whole lens popped off and for some brief moment was on it's own in the air in front of me.... but I caught it, one hand, snatched it out of the air... and was so grateful for a crises averted....
did teach me that I need to get a strap for it, or a strong enough lanyard or something because I'm sure I hit the release while carrying it the way I was carrying it... that will not happen again.
Same thing happened years ago with a Minox ML35 that I used to always carry around. It'd been months at the NY repair facility and I'd only recently gotten it back, and was getting out of a car and for some reason it flew out of my hands and I caught it too mid air. You know what I'm talking about with the soap? It was like that...
 
No ninja-like reflexes for me when the old leather strap on my Argus C3 snapped...it fell like a brick onto the driveway...luckily it was covered by the bottom half of it's case and the only damage I can see is on the back side of the case...I continued to shoot the rest of the roll and everything still looks good...I knew the strap was in poor condition but for some reason I was holding on to it instead of the actual camera...
Pictures of before and after are in the Argust 13th thread...http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134245&highlight=argust+13
First three are before...next three are after...
 
Once there is the audible "click" the lens is properly attached.
I have never ever had a lens coming off an M body unintentionally (Leica, CV or Zeiss).

Anyway, good catch :eek: ! :D
 
I just removed the tripod mount today!! I couldn't stand it, it makes the camera balance on the mount completely, so it's sort of teetering on it, I unscrewed the two screws and removed the foot and put the screws back in, though it looks dumb, might need to figure out something better for that whole situation, if not a piece of gaffers tape over the holes...
I will get a thin leather strap from ebay, or make one, there are a ton of nice looking ones for $15, plain leather strap that can also be wrapped around my wrist. I do have a lanyard from a point-and-shoot, but this would fail under the cameras weight... yes I was carrying the camera by the lens, must have hit the release, it was entirely my fault, not the cameras... like I said though, that will never happen again....
Hope your camera is ok Sam...
 
No ninja-like reflexes for me when the old leather strap on my Argus C3 snapped...it fell like a brick onto the driveway...
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Had this with an HP 180C scoop. Only damage was a hole in my carpet. They don't make them like that anymore...
 
A few years ago, I watched in horror as a friend dropped his Nikon P&S. He grabbed for it in mid-air, only to snag the strap with his fingertips. The upward scooping of his hands caused the camera to swing up, by the strap, and right over his head, whereupon it smacked loudly on the window frame behind him.

The LCD screen was toast, although I think the camera still took pictures! To add insult to injury, he discovered that his insurance policy did not cover accidental breakage outside of the home.

Yeah, I had other ideas when I saw the OP's title, too.
 
nikon_sam said:
No ninja-like reflexes for me when the old leather strap on my Argus C3 snapped...it fell like a brick onto the driveway...luckily it was covered by the bottom half of it's case and the only damage I can see is on the back side of the case...I continued to shoot the rest of the roll and everything still looks good...I knew the strap was in poor condition but for some reason I was holding on to it instead of the actual camera...
Pictures of before and after are in the Argust 13th thread...http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134245&highlight=argust+13
First three are before...next three are after...
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A C3? Did it damage the driveway? :D
 
...Soap-on-a-rope could've averted this little heart stopper....


Read a story of how someone prevented his M leica from falling on the tiles with Ninja reflexes. Great, except for the fact that he put his thumb THROUGH the shutter curtains when he caught the camera... :(
 
I think I have heard this story before. Is it the one about two sailors, a goat and a hula dancer having a shower?
 
Bath gel though has much less comedic effect is much more sanitary than soap. Just imagine using the same bar of soap on your face when it was scrubbing someone else's ass the night before.
 
CliveC said:
The subject line made me think of something else entirely.
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You watch too many prison movies...

I had this happen when my SLR strap slipped out its mooring. Fortunately the camera landed on top of my camera bag. No damage, but a second or two of terror.
 
Rayt said:
Bath gel though has much less comedic effect is much more sanitary than soap. Just imagine using the same bar of soap on your face when it was scrubbing someone else's ass the night before.
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Thank you for that image just before breakfast...
 
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135786

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135786

Using a recently purchased Kodak Easyshare with exact shape of a bar of soap, wearing gloves, i am out in cold of Canada.
The camera starts to move out, i squeeze harder and it;s off like a rocket. It landed on hard ground. TG for gravity. No damage.
The worst doing a street shoot in Johannesburg once fashionable district, Hillbrow, i "thought" my Nikon F was held by my strap on shoulder! I tossed it behind as i reached for the "F" in front.
No back pat from the Nikon F! No a thud ,as it hit the street.
Damaged only Photomic head. Replaced at Nikon.:bang:
 
I was up in a helicopter last week, splitting the costs with a construction photographer. I had a death grip on my D3, since an old D1 fell off a closet shelf and beaned me in the head not long ago. I couldn't imagine the same fate befalling a hapless tourist downtown.
 
I still recall my lens flying off my hand as I was trying to clip it on my camera lens, and in an unconscious move to save the cap I had let my camera go... After three years, I still have that damn lens cap.
 
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