Dropped and smashed my Nikkor 28-70 2.8 on a flagstone floor on Sunday (just about to shoot a wedding). "Move on, nothing to see here...."
Had to shoot more or less the whole wedding on my 50mm 1.4 (which was actually quite a motivating experience)
There is a silver lining of course, as the insurance has already coughed up for the 24-70 2.8 (which looks like a better lens anyway).
All's well that ends well then! I did the same with an Olympus zoom on a gravel car park. It all seemed to happen in slow motion....then there's that horrible sensation in the stomach My insurers were equally helpful.
Zak FRIPN
(Make mine a double)
I dropped my camera on flagstones in Germany some years ago, eliciting a collective groan from several onlookers. I picked it up, to find that a slight dent at one edge of the baseplate was the only damage. The camera? My Zenith B, still none the worse for wear.
Surprising that you didn't get a bill for the flagstones!I dropped my camera on flagstones in Germany some years ago, eliciting a collective groan from several onlookers. I picked it up, to find that a slight dent at one edge of the baseplate was the only damage. The camera? My Zenith B, still none the worse for wear.
My wife managed to drop my gripped D300 & Sigma 50-150, snapping the mount from the lens. The repair didn't cost enough to claim but it was a couple of hundred I could have done without forking out.
The 24-70mm is a peach of a lens, you've done well to get one for a broken 28-70.
"Wrong on so many different levels."
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I did well to find one too! It took me six camera shops before York Cameras in Holborn came up with the goods (and at a better price than Jessops, which is what the insurance claim was based on).
Whilst in Jacobs I also noticed that the D3 has increased by £300.00 since I bought one there last year! What's going on? I know the pounds weak but there's always loss of value on this stuff ....isn't there?
The 28-70 scares children....but I freakin love it.
I don't own one...I only rented one. I had that
and the 24-70 in the shop choosing which one to rent...
went with the "oldie but goodie"....VERY impressive
indeed.
Makes my lenses look like boogers.
Does the picture turn out differently than what you see in the viewfinder?
Did I really have my last post removed? I jokingly suggest that my 28-70 is for sale (which it is of course NOT) the punch line being "one careful owner" (it is smashed to pieces after all!) and the next thing the post has disappeared with a warning about 'goods for sale'.
Lighten up guys, there's barely been any conversation on here at all for the past three months and I'm starting to see why.
All's well that ends .
Oh dear, it was quite obviously a joke! Anyone reading thread could see that.Did I really have my last post removed? I jokingly suggest that my 28-70 is for sale (which it is of course NOT) the punch line being "one careful owner" (it is smashed to pieces after all!) and the next thing the post has disappeared with a warning about 'goods for sale'.
Lighten up guys, there's barely been any conversation on here at all for the past three months and I'm starting to see why.
"Wrong on so many different levels."
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I can vouch for the fact that sometimes, the moderators' senses of humour desert them
Too many cameras, too many lenses.......
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