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01/30/2012 09:17:40 AM · #1 |
During a day-long shoot, of course. Well, I didn't drop it; the camera with lens attached and zoomed all the way in was sitting on something which was apparently less stable than it looked. I had to go check on something my assistant was having trouble printing. Sinking feeling as I heard the crash on the other side of the room :-( The camera, thank heaven, seems absolutely fine. The lens (my 28-300) will zoom from 300-120 or so and then gets physically stuck. The lens lock is not on; I checked ;-) Besides, that only engages at 28, which I can't get anywhere near. Good thing I brought a backup lens, eh?
Posting in the forlorn hope someone else has done something similar and figured out a way to fix it without sending it off to a factory and spending megabucks. I was really hoping I would wake up this morning and find out it had magically fixed itself overnight. No such luck.
Oh, and the shoot was a charity event. No good deed goes unpunished LOL. |
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01/30/2012 10:52:07 AM · #2 |
| Look deeply into the meaning of this incident. Something is telling you to keep your distance. You've been getting too close to people. Don't question it, simply accept it as a sign and embrace it with a 120mm pole. |
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01/30/2012 11:24:50 AM · #3 |
That's a tough one. To me it looks like it's going to be a ship it out for rebuild kind of event. At least you have a good attitude about it, and you understand that stressing out can't help much.
In NM on 06, I allowed a usb cable to pull my Fuji S3 Pro off a table. Fortunately, it still worked fine for the rest of the trip and for about a month, but then, I literally "let the white smoke out of it", and had to send it out to have it repacked with fresh white smoke, for a price of around $400.
This sort of thing is one emotional step below having your gear stolen.
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01/30/2012 12:09:27 PM · #4 |
| It must be Mercury in retrograde mucking up the Nikon mojo. Especially our D700s :-( |
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01/30/2012 04:10:20 PM · #5 |
| Keep my distance, huh? Or, maybe the universe is telling me that I'll never see the big picture so I might as well keep focussing on the details ;-) |
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01/30/2012 11:23:01 PM · #6 |
| I'm making a list from these threads of who NOT to loan a lens too. |
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01/30/2012 11:24:25 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by MattO:
I'm making a list from these threads of who NOT to loan a lens too. |
Very sensible of you! |
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