shattered UV filter and resulting lens scratch

[unpopular]

it's garnered lots of debate on youtube as well.

my problem is how "uniform" the mess is. its on every wall, every photo, every window, up so high.

My boy for a while was very interested in "artesian" bread making. His technique called for dumping a bunch of flower on the table and cracking eggs into it (he never got that far, fortunately).

Flower gets messy very quickly. I could see this happening, but not in four minutes. But who's going to admit that you spent the last 20 minutes reading Redbook or Popular Mechanics on the John when you should have been watching the kids?

 

[RebeccaAPhotography]

I agree she is just way to calm!! I sat there thinking to myself how is she so calm how is she letting them still play with it!?! I woulda been like (screaming probably) "oh my f***ing god Gavin what did you do!?!?! You don't ever do this again!!!!! Lol she's def too calm

 

[molested_cow]

So which will survive better? A lens taking a hit with an UV filter on and one that has no UV filter?
In any case, I am a believer in having a filter on because my lens is subjected to weather elements 100% of the time, when the cap is off, where as a hit or fall will only happen once at best(worst), and it will be my own stupidity to let it happen if it does happen.

Actually, what's worse than children's curiosity is the carelessness of adult camera owners. I get pissed at my sister for how she handles her camera and lens. RESPECT damn it! I am quite an abuser, but she just let a brand new Tokina 11-16 bang around and stuff. May be it's because I paid for the lens....

 

[ph0enix]

Why was your toddler playing with a high priced lens?

you're not a parent, eh?

I am and I have a toddler in the house also. That's why the photo equipment stays up high and out of her reach.

 

[thinkricky]

LMAO. Tyler. First of all, kids always have peanut butter hands. Secondly, the whole home safety thing is a scam. By the time a kid is able to actually manipulate dangerous items like wall sockets, they're also capable of bypassing any safety feature. Accidents unfortunately do happen even with the most attentive parents.

it's called an accident for a reason.

they happen.

no matter how well you try to protect things. sometimes, stuff just happens.

is this the photography beginners forum & photo gallery ? or did i accidentaly get rerouted to Parenting for Dummies/you should have known better/you shall now be burned at the stake for not eliminating 100% of possible accidents from the home ?

I agree with Tyler. I have 2 kids. Let me ask this question. Would you ever let your child "accidentally" play with a knife? Exactly. Situations can be prevented. Most not all. Kid playing with a lens. That is definitely something that is preventable.

But I wouldn't have commented. She's already in anguish about it. I bet it won't happen again...

 

[punch]

this is really asinine.

there's NO reason to comment on anything other than how to deal with the scratch and clean the lens. i never asked what people on the internet thought about parenting. if i needed any kind of help with that, i certainly wouldn't have asked for it here.

useless.

 

[Rjcommando]

because even parents need to take a poo eventually.

I have no idea how that mom could stay so calm and collected.

My wife and I came home from a nice dinner alone ( a rare treat when you have kids ) and we were met with a waterfall flowing through the garage ceiling. We enter the house and find 2inches of standing water and more flowing through the ceiling vents. I run up stairs against the flow of water, and find a clogged, running toilet as the source of all the water.
In the family room, I find three teenage girls, two tween boys and a toddler who are all oblivious to the aquatic mayhem underway. It took me six days with several industrial strength fans and shop vacs to clean up that mess. Surprisingly, all the kids survived and no one was put up for adoption.

 

[naptime]

LMAO. Tyler. First of all, kids always have peanut butter hands. Secondly, the whole home safety thing is a scam. By the time a kid is able to actually manipulate dangerous items like wall sockets, they're also capable of bypassing any safety feature. Accidents unfortunately do happen even with the most attentive parents.

it's called an accident for a reason.

they happen.

no matter how well you try to protect things. sometimes, stuff just happens.

is this the photography beginners forum & photo gallery ? or did i accidentaly get rerouted to Parenting for Dummies/you should have known better/you shall now be burned at the stake for not eliminating 100% of possible accidents from the home ?

I agree with Tyler. I have 2 kids. Let me ask this question. Would you ever let your child "accidentally" play with a knife? Exactly. Situations can be prevented. Most not all. Kid playing with a lens. That is definitely something that is preventable.

But I wouldn't have commented. She's already in anguish about it. I bet it won't happen again...

you may agree with tyler all you want,

but thank you for proving my point.

you can prevent MOST accidents.

you can not prevent ALL accidents.

that's why they are accidents.

would i ever let my kid accidentally play with a knife. no. that's just a stupid question.

if i let her, then it wouldn't be an accident. it would have bee permitted.

did my kid ever get her hands on a knife. yes. did i do what i could have to prevent it. yes. did it happen again. no.

it was an accident.


but, i guess those of us whose children have done something that we didn't want to do, are just inferior parents to those of you that are smart, and have common sense, and prevent 100% of all accidents from ever happening in your children s lives.

may i please petition overreader to create a new subsections so the inferior among us can ask for c&c on our parenting abilities from the superior among us?

 

[Overread]

But I want to use the ban button - it makes cool spacey sounds when I press it; as compared to the new section button which just blows raspberries at me

 

[unpopular]

LMAO. Tyler. First of all, kids always have peanut butter hands. Secondly, the whole home safety thing is a scam. By the time a kid is able to actually manipulate dangerous items like wall sockets, they're also capable of bypassing any safety feature. Accidents unfortunately do happen even with the most attentive parents.

it's called an accident for a reason.they happen.no matter how well you try to protect things. sometimes, stuff just happens.

is this the photography beginners forum & photo gallery ? or did i accidentaly get rerouted to Parenting for Dummies/you should have known better/you shall now be burned at the stake for not eliminating 100% of possible accidents from the home ?

I agree with Tyler. I have 2 kids. Let me ask this question. Would you ever let your child "accidentally" play with a knife? Exactly. Situations can be prevented. Most not all. Kid playing with a lens. That is definitely something that is preventable. But I wouldn't have commented. She's already in anguish about it. I bet it won't happen again...

You are seriously telling me that you don't have that experience of turning around to grab another onion and finding your toddler waving the knife around?

We aren't talking about guns or power tools, we're talking about items we use on a daily basis around our children. Accidents do happen - with cameras, with electrical outlets and yes, with knives. In every case they are preventable but it is also very understandable how these things occur, no matter how tragic the consequences.

Is it excusable that I, and just about every other parent of a toddler has caught their kid emulating people around them using knives, absolutely not given the potential hazard. But it certainly in understandable how it happens.

 

[table1349]

 

[manaheim]

You are seriously telling me that you don't have that experience of turning around to grab another onion and finding your toddler waving the knife around?

We aren't talking about guns or power tools, we're talking about items we use on a daily basis around our children. Accidents do happen - with cameras, with electrical outlets and yes, with knives. In every case they are preventable but it is also very understandable how these things occur, no matter how tragic the consequences.

Is it excusable that I, and just about every other parent of a toddler has caught their kid emulating people around them using knives, absolutely not given the potential hazard. But it certainly in understandable how it happens.

I haven't. Why would a toddler have access to a sharp knife?