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ramcewan
Joined: 02 Mar 2012 Posts: 198 Location: New England, USA
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:41 pm Post subject: I dropped my Hexanon 40mm f1.8 on the pavement... |
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ramcewan wrote:
and it left a dent in the pavement but the lens was fine... I suppose I am lucky but I seriously wonder if a modern lens could have taken the fall? _________________ Olympus e-pl2 with VF-2
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Mflenses: Hexanon 50mm f1.8 AR, Hexanon 40mm f1.8 AR, Hoya 80-200mm f4 in AR, Sigma Super-Wide 24mm f2.8 AR, Jupiter-8 50mm f2, Tair 3 300mm f4.5 Brussels Grand Prix
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MFT Digital lenses: Panasonic 45-200mm f4 OIS, Panasonic 14mm f2.5, Olympus 14-42mm II f3.5, Olympus Zuiko 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 ED (FT with MFT adapter) |
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LucisPictor
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 17633 Location: Oberhessen, Germany / Maidstone ('95-'96)
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: I dropped my Hexanon 40mm f1.8 on the pavement... |
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LucisPictor wrote:
ramcewan wrote: |
and it left a dent in the pavement |
Destruction of public property!! _________________ Personal forum activity on pause every now and again (due to job obligations)!
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woodrim
Joined: 14 Jan 2010 Posts: 4060 Location: Charleston
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: I dropped my Hexanon 40mm f1.8 on the pavement... |
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woodrim wrote:
ramcewan wrote: |
...but I seriously wonder if a modern lens could have taken the fall? |
No. _________________ Regards,
Woodrim |
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sonyrokkor
Joined: 24 Sep 2012 Posts: 222 Location: Perù, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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sonyrokkor wrote:
Congratulation, your beauty lens is salved.
The filter ring is OK? If it was damaged, the shade should be a problem (and that lens can need one).
It's one of the warmish hexanons, nice lens. |
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Himself
Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 3240 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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Himself wrote:
I`ll never be able to understand how one could drop a camera or lens. _________________ Moderator Himself |
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Lightshow
Joined: 04 Nov 2011 Posts: 3666 Location: Calgary
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Lightshow wrote:
Himself wrote: |
I`ll never be able to understand how one could drop a camera or lens. |
No one can till it just happens to them.
Glad you didn't drop it on your foot, then you'd be "Missing a foot Himself" _________________ A Manual Focus Junky...
One photographers junk lens is an artists favorite tool.
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Himself
Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 3240 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Himself wrote:
Lightshow wrote: |
Glad you didn't drop it on your foot, then you'd be "Missing a foot Himself" |
_________________ Moderator Himself |
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iangreenhalgh1
Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 15679
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
My dad dropped my Pentacon 4/200 on our tiled kitchen floor once, it chipped the tile, lens was fine. _________________ I don't care who designed it, who made it or what country it comes from - I just enjoy using it! |
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Excalibur
Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5017 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Excalibur wrote:
Himself wrote: |
I`ll never be able to understand how one could drop a camera or lens. |
Well once on a forum I asked a similar question when someone lost their equipment using a gangplank getting onto a boat....and I got the feeling I was asking a stupid question and never got an answer _________________ Canon A1, AV1, T70 & T90, EOS 300 and EOS300v, Chinon CE and CP-7M. Contax 139, Fuji STX-2, Konica Autoreflex TC, FS-1, FT-1, Minolta X-700, X-300, XD-11, SRT101b, Nikon EM, FM, F4, F90X, Olympus OM2, Pentax S3, Spotmatic, Pentax ME super, Praktica TL 5B, & BC1, , Ricoh KR10super, Yashica T5D, Bronica Etrs, Mamiya RB67 pro AND drum roll:- a Sony Nex 3
.........past gear Tele Rolleiflex and Rollei SL66.
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ramcewan
Joined: 02 Mar 2012 Posts: 198 Location: New England, USA
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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ramcewan wrote:
sonyrokkor wrote: |
Congratulation, your beauty lens is salved.
The filter ring is OK? If it was damaged, the shade should be a problem (and that lens can need one).
It's one of the warmish hexanons, nice lens. |
I had a filter and a cap on the lens. It doesn't seem to have any damage on the filter.
I am not quite sure where it hit as there are no marks but in all honesty I think the MFT adapter took the brunt of it.
Himself wrote: |
I`ll never be able to understand how one could drop a camera or lens. |
In a word: carelessness
I have been trying to take more pics by bringing my camera with me to work every day and stopping on the way since this time of year I tend to be heading in at shortly after sunrise.
When I get to work I put my gear in my laptop bag which goes into the office with me to ensure the hot sun doesn't damage anything or someone doesn't jack my sh!t from my car.
So I bring the camera body and a few lenses, the camera body (Oly E-PL2) fits easily into a pocket that closes. I also normally have a few MFT pancake lenses inside a leather case.
Unfortunately the Hexanon doesn't fit into it's case when the MFT adapter is on it so I had it loose in the bag. When I got out of my car the way the bag strap was it flipped and the lens plopped out
I should have been more careful _________________ Olympus e-pl2 with VF-2
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Mflenses: Hexanon 50mm f1.8 AR, Hexanon 40mm f1.8 AR, Hoya 80-200mm f4 in AR, Sigma Super-Wide 24mm f2.8 AR, Jupiter-8 50mm f2, Tair 3 300mm f4.5 Brussels Grand Prix
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MFT Digital lenses: Panasonic 45-200mm f4 OIS, Panasonic 14mm f2.5, Olympus 14-42mm II f3.5, Olympus Zuiko 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 ED (FT with MFT adapter) |
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Nordentro
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 4713 Location: Lillehammer, Norway
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Nordentro wrote:
I dropped my OM-D with kit-lens 1.5 meters in the asphalt without more than some superstitious scratches and dents
Not a good feeling the first day I had my new camera, but I was lucky that everything still worked
Always connect the camera strap properly before use _________________ Lars | Manuellfokus.no |
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poilu
Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 10472 Location: Greece
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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poilu wrote:
Himself wrote: |
I`ll never be able to understand how one could drop a camera or lens. |
I am lucky till now but I expect this day will come
I often change my lens on the move, running behind my wife trying to avoid steps & holes _________________ T* |
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Himself
Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 3240 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Himself wrote:
I change lenses too. I always have 4 lenses with me.
But it doesn't matter if I'm alone or not, I stop to change the damn thing.
And I'm a strap boy. Always around my neck. _________________ Moderator Himself |
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Victor Nguyen
Joined: 02 Aug 2012 Posts: 241
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:16 am Post subject: |
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Victor Nguyen wrote:
Well, I dropped a Canon 70-200 f 2.8 second version. How? I was a videographer for a wedding and I was trying to use 2 camera. As you know, the 70-200 is so big that you need to attach it to a tripod. My tripod plate started to loosen but I was too busy shooting to take it off and tighten the plate. At the end of the wedding, I tried to take the camera off the lens, and the lens just fell to the floor ( I did try to use my leg to catch it though...). The mount of the lens was bent and they found some internal problem. The total repair cost was $760.
This was one of the reason why I started using manual primes... _________________ Nikkor 24mm f2.8 ai, Rokinon/Samyang 35mm f 1.4, Nikkor 55 f2.8 micro ais, Rokinon/Samyang 85mm f 1.4, Pentacon 135 "bokeh monster" f 2.8, Contax Zeiss 180 f 2.8 |
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Lightshow
Joined: 04 Nov 2011 Posts: 3666 Location: Calgary
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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Lightshow wrote:
My 16-35LII took a trip to the ground, I picked it up nor really paying attention to what I was doing, and it was like it jumped out of my hand, then it was slo-mo all the way to the ground, the zoom was tight at one end, so it was sent in. I felt sick about it for weeks. _________________ A Manual Focus Junky...
One photographers junk lens is an artists favorite tool.
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skida
Joined: 02 Mar 2012 Posts: 1826 Location: North East England
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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skida wrote:
Himself wrote: |
I`ll never be able to understand how one could drop a camera or lens. |
Be careful! I used to say to my work colleagues, "I don't know how anyone can reverse a bus into the railings at the Haymarket Bus Station!" I don't say that anymore. |
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Nordentro
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 4713 Location: Lillehammer, Norway
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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Nordentro wrote:
I also crashed my brand new car into a Honda on a parking lot just 3 weeks after it was new, ha ha
Relax folks, it's only dead things?!?
*I usually look after my thing, but are sometimes clumsy _________________ Lars | Manuellfokus.no |
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philslizzy
Joined: 07 Aug 2012 Posts: 4744 Location: Cheshire, England
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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philslizzy wrote:
Nordentro wrote: |
I dropped my OM-D with kit-lens 1.5 meters in the asphalt without more than some superstitious scratches and dents |
Superstitious? Actually last weekend my nephew was showing me his digital compact that shows orbs of dead people on photos. Thats definitely got a superstitious lens.
But I broke it when i wiped the lens with a clean tissue. No more orbs and one very unhappy nephew.
I dropped my (cheapo) AF nikkor 80-300 in the sea while kneeling to take wide shots of the sea washing up onto the beach. I have a Lowepro zoom case and it bunched up when i knelt tipping the lens out. Probably the best thing actually. My sigma is a much better lens. |
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Victor Nguyen
Joined: 02 Aug 2012 Posts: 241
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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Victor Nguyen wrote:
sigh, dropped my nikkor 24mm ais yesterday. It was on my camera though. There's a dent on the filter ring but I don't see any damage to the lens. is it possible that the lens could have been damage even though I don't see it? _________________ Nikkor 24mm f2.8 ai, Rokinon/Samyang 35mm f 1.4, Nikkor 55 f2.8 micro ais, Rokinon/Samyang 85mm f 1.4, Pentacon 135 "bokeh monster" f 2.8, Contax Zeiss 180 f 2.8 |
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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57865 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Victor Nguyen wrote: |
sigh, dropped my nikkor 24mm ais yesterday. It was on my camera though. There's a dent on the filter ring but I don't see any damage to the lens. is it possible that the lens could have been damage even though I don't see it? |
I don't think so , try it out , shake it, and if pictures come out right, no woble , strange noise. Your lens did survive well, expert can fix dent well too , it will takes again filters and will visible little. Once I did try to fix dent by my self it was a disaster _________________ -------------------------------
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calvin83
Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 7555 Location: Hong Kong
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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calvin83 wrote:
This thread make me remember this news.
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/10/12/polar-bear-at-a-german-zoo-gets-its-paws-on-a-canon-70-200mm-lens/ _________________ https://lensfever.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_lens_fever/
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WolverineX
Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 1693 Location: Zagreb , Croatia , Europe
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:11 pm Post subject: Re: I dropped my Hexanon 40mm f1.8 on the pavement... |
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WolverineX wrote:
ramcewan wrote: |
and it left a dent in the pavement but the lens was fine... I suppose I am lucky but I seriously wonder if a modern lens could have taken the fall? |
good thing it wasn't a tair 3 that would make a hole straight to the center of the Earth _________________ my tools:Oly E-M5 + 45mm/1.8 + Oly E-520 + 12-60 + 14-42 + 70-300 + Sigma 105mm + FL-50R + EC20 + SRF-11 ring flash
http://forum.mflenses.com/wolverinex-testing-my-lenses-series-link-list-t39524.html |
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Orio
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 29545 Location: West Emilia
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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Orio wrote:
ramcewan wrote: |
Himself wrote: |
I`ll never be able to understand how one could drop a camera or lens. |
In a word: carelessness |
You forget about failure of adapter _________________ Orio, Administrator
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