I Accidentally my Camera!
Jun. 24th, 2021 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerMaine Week Travelog #20
Baxter State Park, ME - Friday, 18 Jun 2021, 4pm.
I accidentally my camera. 😰 Fortunately not the whole camera; just one lens. But still: 😰.
It happened when I was climbing the Beehive on Wednesday. My 10-24mm super-wide angle lens popped out of the mesh pocket it was tucked in in the back of my daypack. I was climbing one of those iron rung ladders at the time, so the lens suffered a drop of more than 2m onto a fairly hard surface. The lens cap and sun shade popped off and rolled off a cliff. The lens itself was at the bottom of the ladder, where I could climb back down to retrieve it.
Surprisingly the lens worked okay in the immediate aftermath of the accident. I took a few more pictures with it in the next half hour or so, and those pictures turned out well. But by later in the hike the lens stopped working. The camera would signal errors every time I attached that lens. I tried cleaning the lens's electrical contacts and re-seating it several times but to no avail. It was kaput.
UPDATE: It's $1,000 to replace it! 😨 And it's been so critical to my style of photography for years. Several times during the past 2 days of hiking I've wanted to get a wider angle shot than my 16-55mm ("The Brick") can reach. I'm going to need to do something to replace the 10-24mm soon. But spend a grand— yikes!
UPDATE 2: Duh! I can send it to the manufacturer for repairs. I can't believe I only thought of this two months later.
Baxter State Park, ME - Friday, 18 Jun 2021, 4pm.
I accidentally my camera. 😰 Fortunately not the whole camera; just one lens. But still: 😰.
It happened when I was climbing the Beehive on Wednesday. My 10-24mm super-wide angle lens popped out of the mesh pocket it was tucked in in the back of my daypack. I was climbing one of those iron rung ladders at the time, so the lens suffered a drop of more than 2m onto a fairly hard surface. The lens cap and sun shade popped off and rolled off a cliff. The lens itself was at the bottom of the ladder, where I could climb back down to retrieve it.
Surprisingly the lens worked okay in the immediate aftermath of the accident. I took a few more pictures with it in the next half hour or so, and those pictures turned out well. But by later in the hike the lens stopped working. The camera would signal errors every time I attached that lens. I tried cleaning the lens's electrical contacts and re-seating it several times but to no avail. It was kaput.
What's the Impact?
Breaking photographic equipment sucks, though it's not like I have no practice at it. This isn't the first time I've accidentally a lens— or the whole camera. Here are two instances out of at least 4 I can think of:- I accidentally a lens 3 years ago. It was an inexpensive kit lens so the financial loss didn't bug me much... though when I did replace it earlier this year I bought a much larger and more expensive lens, aka "The Brick".
- I accidentally my whole camera under a waterfall in Brazil in late 2018. That was a more expensive accident as the old camera had cost me almost $1,000 new. But I was looking to replace it soon, anyway, so the loss didn't sting too badly.
UPDATE: It's $1,000 to replace it! 😨 And it's been so critical to my style of photography for years. Several times during the past 2 days of hiking I've wanted to get a wider angle shot than my 16-55mm ("The Brick") can reach. I'm going to need to do something to replace the 10-24mm soon. But spend a grand— yikes!
UPDATE 2: Duh! I can send it to the manufacturer for repairs. I can't believe I only thought of this two months later.
