Ever drop your camera?

This is not mine! How about this situation ... A rental 600mm lens dropped into water filled with alligators!

600mm Lens

A D3 with a 500mm might make me cry lol

I remember years back I witnessed a dept. of fish and wildlife biologist drop a Nikon F5 with a fairly large telephoto overboard in the pacific. Didn't seem to bother him a whole lot though. I guess it was on the government's dime.

I dropped a camera once on a sidewalk years ago. A Pentax k1000. Didn't hurt it at all

Now that's what I call a dedicated photographer!

I came across an interesting article the other day on the internet about what to do when you break your camera. It's full of advice - some very obvious advice and some you might not think of right away.

First, don't panic. Pick up all the pieces - if it's in pieces. Take ouf the batteries and memory card right away. If you don't know what you're doing - and most of us probably don't - don't try fixing it yourself. Take it to a pro. Yes, you'll spend money, but probably less than if you've tinkered with it yourself first.

If you're interested, here's the link to the entire article.

www.digital-photography-school.com/what-...ou-break-your-camera

bhowdy wrote: This is not mine! How about this situation ... A rental 600mm lens dropped into water filled with alligators!

600mm Lens

It's called insurance and that's why we buy it .

Knock on wood, no!

I knocked my 30d with 85mm and a flash off a barstool at my house. Luckily a fat oriental rug and a lucky landing meant everything survived. Scary moment though.

Had my camera on a tripod, set it down (in a hurry of course), one of the legs was not positioned to it's widest position and i knocked it over. Lens element face down onto a rock. The lens and the camera worked fine but i destroyed my 82mm Hoya HMC Super Polarizer. I was lucky thats all it destroyed. That filter saves my rear!

Several years ago I was stepping onto the ice at the arena to photographer an intermission show (after the Zamboni had resurfaced the ice) and my legs went out from under me- I was horizontal to the ice for a few feet and a few split seconds before i came crashing down in front of around 9000-10,000 folks. A collective gasp went up and everyone waited to see if I was broken much less the two cameras and lenses in my vest. Luckily for me the only damage was to the lens hood on my 80-200 f 2.8 and my pride. I taught the arena staff to never zam the ice until AFTER the intermission show if anyone was going to be on the ice without skates that night and to this day they only Zamboni the ice after everyone is off of the ice.

On my old canon 40d, i had a tamron 25-75 2.8 attached. Cheap tripod and ball head..they broke, 40d went to the ground, broke the tamron in half.

Paige120 wrote: OMG. Maybe you shouldn't be a photographer.

OMG maybe you shouldn't use a keyboard.

Dropping equipment doesn't disqualify you from being a photographer any more than getting a flat tire disqualifies you from driving.

Now to answer your question. No, I haven't. I have dropped someone else's lens though.

All I will say is which time. Mine has dropped so many times I have lost count. In all that time I lost one lens and cracked my rear GGS screen protector really good. Once was a flat drop the toehrs were in my hand and it hit as I fell. It happens and I have yet to break my D300 so far. Did it a few times with my D80 as well with no ill effects. The only thing that would worry me is a drowning, in that case though it is a matter of taking the battery out right away and the CF card, then letting it dry fully.

bhowdy wrote: I saw a Nikon D3 and a 500mm lens fall into a salt water lagoon in Florida. A few of us were wading in waist deep salt water photographing wading Reddish Egrets ... apparently this guy did not tightened one of his tripod legs after making an adjustment. He turned to talk to his buddy as the leg slowly collapsed and the entire set-up was laying on the sand bottom, under the 4 feet of salt water! I actually believe that he did cry. I never heard a report on the outcome for his camera gear ....

I would have cried.

Rob pix4u2 wrote: Several years ago I was stepping onto the ice at the arena to photographer an intermission show (after the Zamboni had resurfaced the ice) and my legs went out from under me- I was horizontal to the ice for a few feet and a few split seconds before i came crashing down in front of around 9000-10,000 folks. A collective gasp went up and everyone waited to see if I was broken much less the two cameras and lenses in my vest. Luckily for me the only damage was to the lens hood on my 80-200 f 2.8 and my pride. I taught the arena staff to never zam the ice until AFTER the intermission show if anyone was going to be on the ice without skates that night and to this day they only Zamboni the ice after everyone is off of the ice.

I was wondering if you ever have to get on the ice to get a shot ... I hope you healed up quick.

McBeth Photography wrote:

Rob pix4u2 wrote: Several years ago I was stepping onto the ice at the arena to photographer an intermission show (after the Zamboni had resurfaced the ice) and my legs went out from under me- I was horizontal to the ice for a few feet and a few split seconds before i came crashing down in front of around 9000-10,000 folks. A collective gasp went up and everyone waited to see if I was broken much less the two cameras and lenses in my vest. Luckily for me the only damage was to the lens hood on my 80-200 f 2.8 and my pride. I taught the arena staff to never zam the ice until AFTER the intermission show if anyone was going to be on the ice without skates that night and to this day they only Zamboni the ice after everyone is off of the ice.

I was wondering if you ever have to get on the ice to get a shot ... I hope you healed up quick.

I get to go on the ice for big intermission shows and after the championships but I don't step out there on fresh ice anymore. My friends at the rink that night thought that I had landed hard enough to break a hip-luckily my pride was all that was damaged and the lens hood.