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Vastly improved, thanks! Tomorrow will be the REAL test though--I'm headed out to do some shooting at one of the local refuges. I've only used my camera once since the accident, to take pictures of the Veteran's Day Parade--it went okay, but it definitely hurt my shoulder, and I was only using the 70-300. Tomorrow, I'm going to TRY using the Sigma 150-500 (sans hood, which got broken in the accident and hasn't yet been replaced). But I'm taking the 70-300 along, in case I just can't handle the weight of the Sigma.
Probably won't be able to stay out for too long, but I'm determined to try. Tomorrow is the last day of FULL access to several of the TWRA refuges around here until next March. Since I missed my chance to visit them the past two Saturdays, this is my last chance.
All the bruising and such has improved greatly, but the knee is still giving me fits and I'm becoming more and more convinced that I may have chipped my shoulder blade (they only x-rayed my chest from the front, not the back) so next week I'm headed back to the doctor.
At least I finally got a rental car--although I find myself watching nervously when people come up behind me too fast!
About to start the search for a new-to-me vehicle--I hate shopping for cars!
I'll let you know how the outing goes tomorrow...IF I can move at all by the time I get home!
In all seriousness, I'm really hoping I don't end up driving to the refuge and then just having to turn around and drive back--I'm NOT going to risk further damage if it starts hurting my shoulder too much. But man, do I ever want to be taking pictures again.
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Hope you're on the mend soon!
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Haha, right! That POTM win may *always* stand as one of my "bright and shining moments!"
I'm definitely getting better--I barely hurt at all. Unless I'm trying to carry something that weighs more than a pound. Or using my knee.
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Have fun today Sharon!!
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Just catching up here - good to hear you're back in the saddle. I'm sure all the birds have missed you.
No chance of pictures of the car? (we're all both photo and disaster gluttons)
No chance of pictures of the car? (we're all both photo and disaster gluttons)
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Sharon I think you mean your 5D mkIII and bag full of L lenses got damaged in the crash.
Plus what a bad day to have all your Picassos in the trunk.
Plus what a bad day to have all your Picassos in the trunk.
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I haven't even seen any pictures of the car myself, and I really want to.
Since I couldn't move well at the time of the accident, I wasn't able to take any like I usually would at the scene.
Then I was without a car to go get pictures. I had my brother go take some, since the car was towed to a place close to him, but now he keeps forgetting to share those with me. I thought my son was also going to go take some, but he either forgot or hasn't sent them to me either--bunch of slackers.
I think I'll try again today to see if I can get some pics, and if so, I'll post them.
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If the car had burned, I might be able to get away with that. But the insurance company even wants the JEANS I was wearing (because they got a hole in them--they were brand new, and I want them replaced) before compensating me for them.
However--the whole camera thing may be an issue after all. More on that in next post.
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So, I went out. I had a great time, and holding the camera didn't prove to be too difficult. What I *didn't* calculate was how sore I'd be TODAY--inflammation in my chest seems to have been aggravated. But it was worth it. I'll do a thread about where I went and what I saw, sometime today, I hope.
The big thing I discovered is that I *may* just be getting them to replace my camera and lens after all. Most of my camera gear was in the trunk and it's all working just fine. The camera and Sigma 150-500 were in the passenger-side front seat--BOTH airbags deployed, and the hood to the lens was broken, but that seemed to be the only damage.
I'd tested the camera a little and it seemed okay. I had only taken one or two pictures with the Sigma, because it's just too heavy to hold (and my tripod is currently in my son's car).
Yesterday, the lens just seemed to REALLY struggle with focus. I can't be sure it wasn't me, because of my shoulder--but I'd taken some pictures with the Sigma 50mm lens that seem fine.
Out of over 200 pictures I took yesterday, I'd say 90% of them had focus issues.
Then, after about 4 hours, the camera itself did a few odd things. First, there were a couple of pictures that had a blown-out element in them when there was no reason for that item to be that bright. For instance, there was a picture of a sparrow with a twig in front of it--the sparrow was exposed okay, but the twig in front was blown out; it was practically touching the sparrow, and wasn't any more in the sun than the sparrow was, and all the rest of the picture was exposed okay too. It was just weird. That happened a couple of times.
Then, it decided my sd cards were full and stopped letting me take pictures; even though I had TWO 16gb cards in it and (though I couldn't tell at the time), I'd only taken 220 pictures. Even shooting in raw, 220 pictures doesn't usually fill up ONE 16gb card, never mind two. I don't know why it decided the first card was full, but it seemed to just not want to record to the second card. It wasn't the card; it works fine if I put in the first slot, just not the second.
It's not consistent, though--sometimes it seems to work fine, but then it will suddenly do something weird like that. And maybe ALL the weird little things that happened with the camera were just odd glitches that had nothing to do with the accident. But now I don't want to settle with the insurance for the car until I decide what to do about this. Almost certain I'm going to ask them to replace the Sigma lens, but I'm not nearly as convinced that the camera's oddness was related to the accident.
Well, I'm just going to explain it all to the agent this morning and see what he says.
The big thing I discovered is that I *may* just be getting them to replace my camera and lens after all. Most of my camera gear was in the trunk and it's all working just fine. The camera and Sigma 150-500 were in the passenger-side front seat--BOTH airbags deployed, and the hood to the lens was broken, but that seemed to be the only damage.
I'd tested the camera a little and it seemed okay. I had only taken one or two pictures with the Sigma, because it's just too heavy to hold (and my tripod is currently in my son's car).
Yesterday, the lens just seemed to REALLY struggle with focus. I can't be sure it wasn't me, because of my shoulder--but I'd taken some pictures with the Sigma 50mm lens that seem fine.
Out of over 200 pictures I took yesterday, I'd say 90% of them had focus issues.
Then, after about 4 hours, the camera itself did a few odd things. First, there were a couple of pictures that had a blown-out element in them when there was no reason for that item to be that bright. For instance, there was a picture of a sparrow with a twig in front of it--the sparrow was exposed okay, but the twig in front was blown out; it was practically touching the sparrow, and wasn't any more in the sun than the sparrow was, and all the rest of the picture was exposed okay too. It was just weird. That happened a couple of times.
Then, it decided my sd cards were full and stopped letting me take pictures; even though I had TWO 16gb cards in it and (though I couldn't tell at the time), I'd only taken 220 pictures. Even shooting in raw, 220 pictures doesn't usually fill up ONE 16gb card, never mind two. I don't know why it decided the first card was full, but it seemed to just not want to record to the second card. It wasn't the card; it works fine if I put in the first slot, just not the second.
It's not consistent, though--sometimes it seems to work fine, but then it will suddenly do something weird like that. And maybe ALL the weird little things that happened with the camera were just odd glitches that had nothing to do with the accident. But now I don't want to settle with the insurance for the car until I decide what to do about this. Almost certain I'm going to ask them to replace the Sigma lens, but I'm not nearly as convinced that the camera's oddness was related to the accident.
Well, I'm just going to explain it all to the agent this morning and see what he says.
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