OUCH! (Dropped Equipment)

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Lakeside Annie

Senior Member
It's a sickening feeling, when your equipment hits the ground.

When did it happen to you? How did it happen? How long to get it back from the repair shop (if it was able to be repaired?)


I got my D3100 for Christmas, 2010. At Easter, 2011, we took a trip to visit my family in another state. We hopped in my mom's SUV to go to my Aunt and Uncle's house for dinner. As I was getting out of the back seat, my left hand gripped both my camera strap and my purse strap. For some unknown reason, my brain told me, "loosen up that hand just a touch." And for some unknown reason, my hand responded. :confused:

When my brain finally registered what that deafening crash to the ground was, I thought I was going to be sick. The camera hit the ground on the lens cover of my kit lens (18-55;) I could hear the shattered glass beneath the lens cover. Stomach in my throat, I told my SO what had just happened. He took the injured from me and tried to remove the jammed lens cover. When he finally released it, we were relieved to see it was just the filter that shattered. The lens still looked intact. I was so sad, disappointed, angry, confused... WHY did I loosen my grip on my hand??? :mad:

When we returned back home after our trip, we took the camera to the shop where it was purchased. Lucky for us, the SO purchased a repair warranty when he purchased the camera. We sent the camera and lens off to be repaired. It took about 5 weeks for it to get back to us... but the filter ring was still jammed on the end of my lens. :grief: So we had to send the lens back to the repair shop. For another month I had to use the only lens I had at the time, my 55-300. I was so thrilled when my kit lens finally came back!

I've been SUPER careful with it ever since. ALWAYS wearing the camera strap around my neck before I make a move with my camera.

I don't ever want to go through that again.
 
Michael J.

Michael J.

Senior Member
It was December Vacation. My daughter tried to take a photo with the D80 Lens 18-135. She dropped it and the vacation photos were history.

I want by a new lens but I bought the D5100 cos the 16-85 was nearly the same price as the D5100. What should I say now I have the D5100, the 16-85, the 40mm, the 50mm
, the 55-300 and the 18-55.

As fact of the matter II got what I wanted. Thank you my dear daughter for dropping my gear.


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Whiskeyman

Whiskeyman

Senior Member
Twice.

The first time was last October. After shooting a high school football game, I returned home with my 18-200 in a lens pouch. With my hands full of other stuff, I picked the lens pouch up, but not by the cinch-ropes. I took several steps before I felt it start to slip, but really couldn't do anything else due to having too much else in my hands. It fell and landed on the lens cap, breaking the cap, shattering the UV filter and bending the filter ring inside the filter threads on the lens. Sick wasn't the word for how I felt at the time.

Less than two weeks later, I was distracted while changing lenses and after placing the first lens on a table, I reached for the second and knocked the first lens off of the table. This time it was a cheaper lens, but it still made me angry at myself.

Now my rule is that when transporting camera and lens is they are in my camera bag and I'm not encumbered by other items. When I change lenses, that is all that I am doing at the time.
 
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mikew_RIP

Senior Member
My wife slipped on a very steep and tall embankment i hear heard her shout and saw her slide and semi roll all the way down with her hasselblad held aloft in one hand,got over to her and before i could say any thing she said i saved the camera;)
 
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