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<blockquote data-quote="Silver" data-source="post: 148286" data-attributes="member: 14167"><p>jwsti, I'll tell you the exact story. It's already becoming a classic within my circle (ha): My brother and I were at the Conowingo Dam on the Susquahanna River near Port Deposit, MD, to shoot eagles during the shad run. We had a successful day, or at least I did, up to the fateful moment. Around 4:30 pm or so, I finally got some shots of an eagle with a shad, flying with it and eating it. Soon, the activity died down as late afternoon waxed on. I was on the concrete bulkhead there where everybody sets up and shoots, and I was pretty much done. I was hand-held at that point, using my Sigma 150-500mm (which by the way is incredible), and I was going back to my tripod which was about 30 feet away. As I walked, I noticed one of the guys fishing there, who had two poles with lines out, had hits on both of his rods at the same time. This caught my attention. I was sort of putting my camera back on the tripod and looking at this guy and his lines at the same time. (I had a Arca-Swiss quick-release plate on the Sigma's tripod collar, and a Jobu "gimbal" on my Arca-Swiss Ball head). By this time the guy was frantically reeling in one line, and finally he pulled up a walleye. He says "Ah ____, it's just a walleye!" and drops the fish onto the concrete and kicks it back into the water. Now my attention was fully on this, because I was getting mad at this guy's treatment of the fish, which is not only cruel but illegal... Somewhere in here the camera is now on the tripod via the Arca-Swiss plate. Then this guy reels in the other line: he pulls up out of the water a striper, which looked about 29-30" to me (which would have been a keeper IF it wasn't catch and release at the time). He drops it onto the rocks (not intentional, but out of carelessness), then gets back up on the bulkhead, and drops it down onto the concrete from about 3 ft., steps on it to get the hook out, and picks it up for a couple people to take pictures, then throws it back. I wonder if that fish lived after this treatment. It was a female full of roe, too. So after he throws it back, I start back to my car, tripod over my shoulder. I walk about 100 yards to my car, and 10 feet before I get there, I felt my tripod dip forward and something hit the back of my leg. I turn around, and there is my camera and lens on the asphalt, the Sigma broken in two with the small section still bayonetted to the D800. I was so dumbfounded that I didn't even have any reaction. I just stood there for who knows how long staring at it. So... what happened? Apparently I did not tighten the knob on the Jobu Arca-Swiss mount. My attention was so focused on this guy with the fish that I forgot to tighten it. It didn't fall off until I got almost to my car probably because it was at an angle where the plate was parallel to the ground. Now, I got the Sigma fixed and it works fine. Again, amazingly, the D800 still works, but with a bent in bayonet, and breached moisture & dust proofing. Also, one of my lenses wouldn't work on it, it gave me a FEE error. Lesson here? Maybe try not to get upset over another person doing something bad? I don't know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver, post: 148286, member: 14167"] jwsti, I'll tell you the exact story. It's already becoming a classic within my circle (ha): My brother and I were at the Conowingo Dam on the Susquahanna River near Port Deposit, MD, to shoot eagles during the shad run. We had a successful day, or at least I did, up to the fateful moment. Around 4:30 pm or so, I finally got some shots of an eagle with a shad, flying with it and eating it. Soon, the activity died down as late afternoon waxed on. I was on the concrete bulkhead there where everybody sets up and shoots, and I was pretty much done. I was hand-held at that point, using my Sigma 150-500mm (which by the way is incredible), and I was going back to my tripod which was about 30 feet away. As I walked, I noticed one of the guys fishing there, who had two poles with lines out, had hits on both of his rods at the same time. This caught my attention. I was sort of putting my camera back on the tripod and looking at this guy and his lines at the same time. (I had a Arca-Swiss quick-release plate on the Sigma's tripod collar, and a Jobu "gimbal" on my Arca-Swiss Ball head). By this time the guy was frantically reeling in one line, and finally he pulled up a walleye. He says "Ah ____, it's just a walleye!" and drops the fish onto the concrete and kicks it back into the water. Now my attention was fully on this, because I was getting mad at this guy's treatment of the fish, which is not only cruel but illegal... Somewhere in here the camera is now on the tripod via the Arca-Swiss plate. Then this guy reels in the other line: he pulls up out of the water a striper, which looked about 29-30" to me (which would have been a keeper IF it wasn't catch and release at the time). He drops it onto the rocks (not intentional, but out of carelessness), then gets back up on the bulkhead, and drops it down onto the concrete from about 3 ft., steps on it to get the hook out, and picks it up for a couple people to take pictures, then throws it back. I wonder if that fish lived after this treatment. It was a female full of roe, too. So after he throws it back, I start back to my car, tripod over my shoulder. I walk about 100 yards to my car, and 10 feet before I get there, I felt my tripod dip forward and something hit the back of my leg. I turn around, and there is my camera and lens on the asphalt, the Sigma broken in two with the small section still bayonetted to the D800. I was so dumbfounded that I didn't even have any reaction. I just stood there for who knows how long staring at it. So... what happened? Apparently I did not tighten the knob on the Jobu Arca-Swiss mount. My attention was so focused on this guy with the fish that I forgot to tighten it. It didn't fall off until I got almost to my car probably because it was at an angle where the plate was parallel to the ground. Now, I got the Sigma fixed and it works fine. Again, amazingly, the D800 still works, but with a bent in bayonet, and breached moisture & dust proofing. Also, one of my lenses wouldn't work on it, it gave me a FEE error. Lesson here? Maybe try not to get upset over another person doing something bad? I don't know. [/QUOTE]
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