The Worst Your Lens Has Been Through?

[Alex Lim]

lesson of the day: never attempt to do macro shots in the toilet, please do it in the comfort of your room :bsmilie::bsmilie::bsmilie:

you are thinking quite creatively :bsmilie:

 

[bullseyez]

there were one day i took some landscape at helix bridge. i saw this china guy using his oldie film camera with a shutter release cable attach on(maybe his shutter button not function), out of sudden his cable drop into Marina bay sea water. The moment later i saw him use his iphone to take photo of our CBD. I was LOL in my heart(evil me).

know that this is not related here but i just wan to inform every fellow photography. please take good care of your gear cos they don't come cheap(unless money is not a issue to u). cheers. ^^

 

[Aurorasea]

I go on holiday and see a guy carrying lots of cameras and different lenses and a car comes along and knocks the white L-lens sticking out of his side.
Lesson is always be careful with equipment esp. when going on holidays

 

[cmeptb72]

Letting go of my setup mounted on a tripod without realising the tripod's not set up properly.

My whole setup fell over & hit the ground, lens first - result: lens mount is still attached to the camera while the rest of the lens broke off :sweat:

 

[mfbatzap]

to see someone's lens roll down into Singapore River while he was changing the lens . . . :cry:

holy crap!! that must have hurt! what did he do next? jump into the river????

my tripod ballhead disintergrated and parts rolled into the singapore river at night.. hahaha..

 

[jovian]

erm... unable to compose beautiful shots due to my noobness?
對不起 the lens.. :embrass:

 

[sinned79]

erm... unable to compose beautiful shots due to my noobness?
對不起 the lens.. :embrass:

u post wrong thread?

 

[commonjunks]

u post wrong thread?

Maybe he got too excited.

 

[imboyster]

I was shooting a Festival in the Philippines using my Canon 40D attached with a 24-70 USM two years ago. There was a lot of people so i climbed a fence to get a better view and vantage point. Immediately after the event, i jumped from the fence and forgot to hold on my camera tightly. My camera swung from left to right and hit a sharp side of a fence. I could rotate the focus ring anymore because the focusing barrel was stuck inside. Got cold sweat after that.

Brought it to Canon the next day for repair. I waited for 1 month for it to be properly replaced.

 

[clioboy]

my 24-70, attached to 5D on a tripod, dropped lens 1st into a bowl of fishhead soup noodle..

:sweat:

:bsmilie:

 

[titleist]

laying in the dry cabinet and do nothing.



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Man.. u got me to this first.. I don't have anything serious happening to my lens. But like you said, my worst is having all my lens in the dry cabinet doing nothing at all. I have 4 lens, but i nowadays i always use only 1 lens.

 

[stubertsg]

While focusing on a bird, some birds fly by and crap on my lens (barrel) as revenge.

 

[zozzcyx]

While focusing on a bird, some birds fly by and crap on my lens (barrel) as revenge.

This is where weather sealing comes in handy! :bsmilie:

 

[raydio]

Man.. u got me to this first.. I don't have anything serious happening to my lens. But like you said, my worst is having all my lens in the dry cabinet doing nothing at all. I have 4 lens, but i nowadays i always use only 1 lens.

Do tell.... which one do you use?

 

[Redantckc]

Hope none of these will happen to any of us. But I always risk this when change lens. Anyone got video on speed/safe lens change workflow?

 

[Soundaholic]

I think as long as you can change lenses without having to put down the camera you're quite safe. I'm proud of having strong and flexible fingers so I don't encounter any accidents while changing lenses. Well, at least not yet. My cam and lens get knocked on by stuff from time to time but it's also the hood that makes contact, so no real damage done so far

I feel really bad for the guy who got his lens falling into Singapore river. Helplessly watching it rolling into the river must be the most painful thing ever ):

 

[raydio]

I think as long as you can change lenses without having to put down the camera you're quite safe. I'm proud of having strong and flexible fingers so I don't encounter any accidents while changing lenses. Well, at least not yet. My cam and lens get knocked on by stuff from time to time but it's also the hood that makes contact, so no real damage done so far

I feel really bad for the guy who got his lens falling into Singapore river. Helplessly watching it rolling into the river must be the most painful thing ever ):

Changing lenses is one activity that I do not like to do for fear of dust and debris landing inside the camera. Whenever I do change lenses I try to follow these two criteria:

1. Perform the lens change as quickly and efficiently as possible.
2. While the camera is "lensless" point the camera "down", so as to minimize the dust and debris from "landing" inside the camera.

Anybody else with words of wisdom to improve this technique? I would appreciate learning from others.

 

[Dream Merchant]

My (FD) 35-105 f/3.5 constant) lens, and F1n body with the 12-AA cell batt pack fell from an industrial 1st floor when a dispatch rider ran and banged into me. At that time, JTC '1st floors' were sometime higher that 1-3/4 stories of normal HDB floors.

Prism was slightly dented and the lens mount was actually 'crooked'!

I kinda 'pushed' it back into place and everything was fine. F1n bodies have been known to withstand attacks from rioting mobs and attacks from overhead metal poles etc. :bsmilie:

I probably won't try that with a non white lens or 1D series bod now. :sweat:

 

[willdoang]

headbut several time by fellow photogs during AFA X(please guys & girls look at the back or up first before standing) :bsmilie:

 

[slmka]

2 wks ago another person L lens rolled down the stairs @ chek jawa tower. he was luckily that I was at the bottom at the stairs to stop his lens from flying out of the platform, the whole area seem very quiet while then lens was rolling down...then my friend G11 lens adaptor ring roll off the platform. The earth gravity must be quite strong that day...lol