how many times have you dropped your camera?

impete82 · 09-12-2008, 03:18 PM

thought it'd be fun

i ask, cause sadly i dropped mine last weekend

i almost cried

i had the camera on a table (maybe 3 or so feet off the floor) and i went to grab my bag then was going to grab the camera, but someone the straps tangled (i assume) and the camera went flying lol wasn't concrete thank goooooooooooood, was a tile floor.... everything works the same, nothing shattered. once in a class someone dropped their camera and all we heard was glass shattering lol not cool

*mhertel* · 09-12-2008, 03:35 PM

Never.. (knock on wood)

*roentarre* · 09-12-2008, 03:36 PM

A couple of times for me. Especially when I change lenses or do things in a rush.

*daacon* · 09-12-2008, 03:51 PM

Once for me - from the hip hood first (lucky) on a tile floor - no permanet damage to the lens or camera. The sigma 105 metal hood took a licking mind ya ..

flyer · 09-12-2008, 04:03 PM

Forgot to shut the back pack before picking it up. The camera (K10D) fell about 3 foot to the ground. I had to send it to Pentax Canada to have it fixed up. It threw the AE-L switch out of adjustment. You don't know what a pain it can be trying to figure out what's going on when your exposures are always somewhere in the ditch. The switch kept cycling on and off by itself. I almost went crazy!

*monochrome* · 09-12-2008, 04:53 PM

I know all those cool photographs of cool photographers taking cool photographs of the western US captured the subjects holding their cameras without a strap - I wouldn't hang a camera from my neck, either.

But I do have a fairly short red Pentax strap on each of my bodies - and I wrap it once around my right hand before I do anything else with the camera.

That was the first and basic instruction in a school photography course using school cameras - and forgetting to do so cost grade points.

Good habits die hard

stevebrot · 09-12-2008, 05:19 PM

Hmmmmm...I don't think I have ever dropped a camera. I fell on a Ricoh Singlex TLS once skiing. It was hanging by its strap from my neck. The fall sheared the strap lug off, but a camera shop was able to replace that. The sheared lug was the only damage. Tough buggers, those old Ricohs.

Steve

BTW...That was a several decades ago with my original TLS...not the one I own now.

*Venturi* · 09-12-2008, 06:14 PM

another knock on wood here.

However, I did accidentally sit on my K1000 with a 70-200 tele attached. Busted the mounting ring on the lens but the K1000 came out unscathed.

little laker · 09-12-2008, 06:23 PM

The first thing I do is put the strap on, to hopefully avoid that situation.

Whenever I place my cameras on a table I ensure that the straps are also on the table, where they can't get wrapped up in anything to drag them around.

Originally Posted by flyer

Forgot to shut the back pack before picking it up. The camera (K10D) fell about 3 foot to the ground.

I've learn that lesson over and over again, with fishing tackle boxes, and also tool boxes.
But I thankfully learned a simple method to avoid it before I started hiking around with camera gear

And that is to always leave the camera bag, or box, or whatever either completely open. Or completely zipped and strapped up.
That way there's no mistakes.

*Damn Brit* · 09-12-2008, 06:36 PM

If I participate in this poll, Murphy's law will kick in and tomorrow I will drop my camera.

impete82 · 09-12-2008, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by Damn Brit

If I participate in this poll, Murphy's law will kick in and tomorrow I will drop my camera.

hahaha oh come on ... participate, you know you wanna :P

CycloneBandDad · 09-12-2008, 06:47 PM

Dropped my K1000 from the stairs of a USAF C-130 cargo plane about 10-12 feet to the concrete runway.

It popped off (and dented) the little cap on the film advance lever (popped it right back on and it has worked just fine for the past 24 years...

).

Knocked my little tripod over with my K100D still attached, on my desk... Busted the UV filter on the kit lens. New filter, all is fine

Jim

Scottnorwo · 09-12-2008, 07:07 PM

Thank God never for me. But the cell phone is another story

flyer · 09-12-2008, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by little laker

And that is to always leave the camera bag, or box, or whatever either completely open. Or completely zipped and strapped up.
That way there's no mistakes.

When you have two cats, a large curious dog and a crazy skunk in the house, you don't leave the camera bag open. The bag is ALWAYS shut and zipped up (except that time). I had been disturbed while putting my things away and forgot it was not zipped up when I came back.

*jbrowning* · 09-12-2008, 08:30 PM

I dropped my k100d once, but it was dropped on my bed so I don't think that really counts....does it.

Laker I know what you mean about tackle boxes.

Jim