Came across an old email from 2007
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thewayneI was searching my email looking for one about a Nikon Coolpix that was dropped in a river and continued working in the most amazing way, when I came across this. The first paragraph is mine.
My 24mm lens died, I spoke with my repairman yesterday and he said "say some kind words and give it a nice burial." Well, a guy on my blog's friend's list had an encounter at a party with a drunk friend who tackled him, and in the process broke a Nikon flash and trashed a laptop. I sent him the following message when the photographer suggested that we could start a community for photography horror stories:
Oh, no doubt! The sad thing was that my 24mm died while I was doing parametric testing for class. At least it was remarkably consistent when it came to densitometer readings. :-)
It's inevitable, as long as you take photos, you're going to have equipment ruined. Absolutely inevitable. There was that time when Ansel Adams was attacked by a group of ninja and a shuriken tore through the bellows of his 8x10 view camera before he could subdue them all with his tripod, but as I heard it he was able to effect a field repair with some duct tape (don't leave home without it!) and shot a glorious image of the defeated ninjas at sunset in the Mojave Desert.
That image is only rarely seen and has not been published.
My 24mm lens died, I spoke with my repairman yesterday and he said "say some kind words and give it a nice burial." Well, a guy on my blog's friend's list had an encounter at a party with a drunk friend who tackled him, and in the process broke a Nikon flash and trashed a laptop. I sent him the following message when the photographer suggested that we could start a community for photography horror stories:
Oh, no doubt! The sad thing was that my 24mm died while I was doing parametric testing for class. At least it was remarkably consistent when it came to densitometer readings. :-)
It's inevitable, as long as you take photos, you're going to have equipment ruined. Absolutely inevitable. There was that time when Ansel Adams was attacked by a group of ninja and a shuriken tore through the bellows of his 8x10 view camera before he could subdue them all with his tripod, but as I heard it he was able to effect a field repair with some duct tape (don't leave home without it!) and shot a glorious image of the defeated ninjas at sunset in the Mojave Desert.
That image is only rarely seen and has not been published.
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Date: 2015-11-17 04:47 pm (UTC)I've been pretty lucky so far, gear-wise. My Canon 70-300mm got a stuck aperture, which I finally sent in for Canon to fix up so it's all better now. And my camera bag took a tumble once, and the Tokina 11-16mm attached to the camera basically broke in half. Bummer! Repair on that wasn't too pricey, thankfully. :)
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Date: 2015-11-19 12:16 am (UTC)All in all, I've been fortunate with my equipment.
What's interesting is the 24mm with the stuck open aperture is fine for film work: go to Aperture Priority, set to max f-stop, shoot away! You have so much inherent depth of field with a 24mm that it wasn't much of a problem, as long as you didn't use too high an ISO film. My Sigmas are too led to work with my digital bodies, but work fine with my Eos film bodies.