Has anyone accidental drop your camera?

[tecboy]

One time I was in the park. I sat on a bench to swap lens. The strap got caught on the corner of a bench, and I yanked the body. The body slipped out of my hand and hit the bench. The sound of loud boom. Well, it wasn't that loud. Interesting my camera still works. That was a scary moment when it happened, or a near death experience.

 

[Overread19 7]

Thus far I've only ever dropped my 18-55mm kit lens, and it sort of only rolled off the car seat onto the ground (door was open). No harm done and it still works.

Thankfully I've never dropped my gear badly - though as the investment have gone up I've made sure I've got some insurance cover. I'd hate to drop my gear and be landed a massive bill (or have it all stolen).

 

[Compaq]

Isn't insurance a good reason for you to drop all of your gear?

I haven't dropped anything, actually. I haven't been shooting that long, though, so maybe that's the reason. Now that I've acknowledged that,


knock knock

 

[bhop]

My Leica M6 fell of a chair once and hit the floor. Luckily it was carpet (convention center thin carpet) but it bent the rewind crank, which eventually fell off and was lost as a result. The dinky little aluminum replacement crank ended up costing me nearly 100 bucks..lame..

 

[STM]

I have, but when I have dropped my F2's and F4S the only thing it did was leave a DENT OR A CRACK IN THE PAVEMENT. Cameras nowaday are JUST NOT BUILT TO THE SAME ROBUSTNESS as they were 20+ years ago. I would be willing to bet I could smash most modern day lenses to little piles of plastic bits with my AIS Nikkors and do nothing but maybe scuff the paint. Cameras and lenses back then were built to last forever. Some of my Nikkors date back to the late 70's and early to mid 80's. Probably my "youngest" one is my 600mm f/5.6 and I doubt it is any younger than earl1990's, I did drop my 24mm f/2.8 AIS Nikkor onto a concrete floor from about waist height one time, no real damage (it landed on its side) but it would not focus to infinity. I sent it off to Nikon and hey realigned the elements and it worked fine after that. Still going like a champ. Nowadays, most stuff except the most expensive, high end stuff is almost built to be disposable. Honestly, I would not give you a nickle for a whole truck load of the stuff.

I honest to God just about S*HIT myself when I found out that Nikon was now making some MALE BAYONET MOUNTS out of PLASTIC. ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME????? PLASTIC???? And to me at least, the newer stuff just does not have that precision "feel" of the older stuff. The helicoids on my older stuff are still just like butter, but the new stuff today just seems rough and cheap feeling.

Ok, I will get off my soapbox. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress!

 

[tecboy]

Yep, thankfully nothing broken on my camera. I just remembered I had a camera bag. I forget to bucket the strap. The strap was loose when I put it on my shoulder and the camera bag fell behind me. It hit the floor and luckily, this camera bag had thick pads to protect my camera from impact. Imagine, if I carry my camera in my backpack, I could have killed my camera completely.

 

[imagemaker46]

Dropped a Canon 1D from shoulder height, landed in mud, no damage. Put a Leica SLR on the roof of a car and watched it in the rear view mirror as it spun around in the air and hit the road, a little dent on one corner, but no real damage. Dad had a Leica 400 2.8 roll off the seat of a media bus, snapped the lens in 3 pieces, it was one of 10 that Leica had just released and discovered a flaw as a result.

 

[sovietdoc]

We were out shooting a few weeks ago and my friend dropped his Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 For some reason he rolled it in his coat and put on the back seat of his car, then when he came out, he grabbed his coat and the lens fell right down on the asphalt.

Nothing is completely broken but looks like he bent the zoom ring so it's hard to rotate that zoom from about 35 to 24 mm. He says he can send it to Nikon and repair that if he wants for 200-300 bucks as he already done that before.


I usually just try to be careful with it, but not to an extent like "zo noes I got this 1 dust particle on my lens, I must remove it asap before it breaks the lens", luckily I've never dropped any of my gear.

 

[lonewolfsx]

I dropped my Rebel XTi once..
I was at an airshow and the planes had landed, so I went to switch from my 75-300 to... can't remember... something else. Anyway, my girlfriend at the time stood up and knocked my gatorade bottle off the table towards where I had the camera. So I tried to move it out of the way of the spill but it slipped, me holding the lens in one hand and the strap in the other (but the strap was long enough where it still made it to the ground, so I guess the drop was way less than 2 feet). The camera fell down, the bottle rolled on its side and spilled all over the camera anyway (gahhhh!). [I kepted the camera, but traded in the girl. Hooo snap!]

Double whammy on damage, sticky fluid and a nice big scuff in the corner. Ever since then (years ago), when it gets really cold and I'm not actively using the camera, all of the buttons on the right side on the back are a little sticky, and the dial takes a few back-and-forths to loosen up. When it's warm it's not even noticeable... which is strange that it hasn't gone away eventually living in the heat down here in GA and Florida. Luckily none of my lenses were involved (I like those more than my rebel body haha).

But hey, to be honest, there is just no way that my Rebel Xti should have lasted this long. I mean actuation wise it's probably not crazy (somewhere around 20,000 I'd guess, not a lot but I think the rebel shutter is only rated to 35K or so), but it's been to some crazy places. It's been scuba diving, I skied with it a few times, I took it to hawaii which included both volcanoes and rented telephotos (which my brother and I traded off camera duty while surfing so we could get pictures of ourselves riding [tons of sand!]), Ireland where it rained a ton (actually it was nice the first few weeks but afterwards.. yeah), and like a billion football games and other college sports events when I worked for the paper.

I can't believe it's still clicking, however my brother's camera, which we got at the same time but has seen a lot less use, just feels better to use... like the actuation of the mirror and shutter just feel more solid and precise. It probably doesn't make any sense, and the pictures they take look the same, so maybe it's just me.

 

[Tony S]

I've never dropped my camera, but I had one set up as a remote while I was out shooting a herd of elk. Well, the elk herd didn't stay on the game trail I had staked out. Down went the camera and tripod, the camera was ok, but one of the tripod legs got snapped right at the top where it swivels out. Pictures I tried to shoot as it went down didn't turn out.

 

[Sw1tchFX]

oh sure, split my D700 in half when I did it LOL

But that's why there's insurance!

 

[lonewolfsx]

oh sure, split my D700 in half when I did it LOL

But that's why there's insurance!

ouch! Did you take pictures of the damage? I kind of want to see what the insides of a broken D700 look like haha... I might throw up though

 

[Patrice]

Dropped camera? Yes of course, more than once.

Mishaps can happen to stuff that gets used a lot and in trying environments.

Did drop at one time or another: Speed Graphic (it was closed) no damage, Mamiya C330 - got scuffed, F4s - dented the hardwood floor, D200 - broke the attached sb600.

 

[BrendanRaley]

Just last yesterday (5/26) I was shooting a Hmong fashion show at the Fresno Fairgrounds and had my Canon 1D Mk III, Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX OS and Canon 550EX mounted on a monopod by the lenses tripod collar in portrait at eye level (6'3") when someone fell into me and my camera fell onto a bag with a water bottle in it on the floor. The water bottle exploded over all of my gear but all that was damaged was the flash, which popped apart where the bottom screws onto the top. The lens and camera were completely undamaged and with the use of some electical tape i put the flash back together and other than the TTL not working and the flash only firing at 1/1 i was able to use it for the remaining hour of the shoot. Previously I have dropped my Leica M3 with 90mm f/4 collapseable about 5 feet onto concrete, it hit the sidewalk on the right corner and sented the camera and broke the rangefinder mirror, but mechanically the camera worked flawlessly. Even though its a 58 year old camera, leica was able to completely repair it (though they did have to fit in the finder from a M6J as they no longer have any M3 finders left).

 

[DorkSterr]

Just dropped my Nikon D4 last night it sounded like a boulder totally different sound from my D7000/D5100. D4 was equipped with the 14-24mm, Nikon D4 works perfectly not so much for re 14-24mm totally unusable.