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Wow! Just in front of the owner! Quite a situation! Thanks for sharing.I picked up a backpack. One strap was looped through my tripod leg. The mounted Cambo/SK/IQ160 did a rapid face plant. Right in front of the system’s owner. I was borrowing it. Fortunately, only permanent damage was to tilt/swing lens mount.
Interesting! I feel the other way. Unless all your plates are from the same manufacturer, a supposedly clamped camera may still be loose. With screw clamps, I always assume that they are loose (like all guns are loaded) and check them every time....
With lever-release clamps you can see if your camera is locked down or not whereas with screw clamps you cannot!
Lesson learned, albeit painfully!
Yeah. And that owner was Dave Gallagher of Capture Integration. Way to make a good first impression, Matt! (He was very nice about it...)Wow! Just in front of the owner! Quite a situation! Thanks for sharing.
Wow! And "the phone rang" - you cannot imagine how many times it made me do some stupid things, for example replacing an empty battery only to put it back HA. HA HAI was getting ready for a road trip and wanted to pull out my gear to make sure I was not over packing. I took my Linhof MT 3000 out of its bag and placed it on the tripod I would be traveling with. It is an RRS 23 with a 40 series ball head and had a screw-type clamp. I went through the checklist in my head and was getting ready to pull the camera off the tripod when the phone rang. I was operating in 'complacency mode' because when I returned to breaking down the camera, as soon as I touched her, she slid off the tripod and head first onto the tiled studio floor.
$675 and four months later, she returned to me and I had a shiny new lever-release clamp waiting to secure her to the tripod.
With lever-release clamps you can see if your camera is locked down or not whereas with screw clamps you cannot!
Lesson learned, albeit painfully!
Back when I shot weddings, it was with 220 and 70mm film.Early in my career I did a few weddings, mostly for people I knew. It was still very stressful to me and the entire wedding took place in a very difficult lighting environment. I set up my camera for RAW and when I got home I realized that I did just opposite - only JPEGs!!! You can imagine the horror HA HA HA. Fortunately, once I calmed down and looked at files they somehow turned out quite well. Since then I am double checking all my camera settings before each trip/shoot.
I use to think that way too Matt until I became too comfortable for my own good.Interesting! I feel the other way. Unless all your plates are from the same manufacturer, a supposedly clamped camera may still be loose. With screw clamps, I always assume that they are loose (like all guns are loaded) and check them every time.
Wow! Quite a story! I am glad you got out of it unscathed.
I had just spent the day climbing from a camp site on the other side of the peak on the horizon. I had taken this image in the afternoon. This was after having spent a couple of weeks in the North Alps of Japan. My plan was to continue for another week heading north along this ridge.
A few hours after this image was taken, my wife and I left our new camp site for an evening stroll. I was standing on a slop of fine scree to take a picture. Suddenly, the scree gave way under my feet and I fell backwards. My arms flew out to balance myself and the camera I was holding swung around and hit the ground lens first. The Mamiya 6 mechanism that extends the lens was bent, rendering the only camera I had useless. To say I was a bit disappointed was an understatement.
Now, I always take a backup camera when I travel (even my Prius has a backup camera ).
Maybe a little bruising to the soul, but no broken bones.Wow! Quite a story! I am glad you got out of it unscathed.
I remember that day! The kilns above Death Valley IIRC.I picked up a backpack. One strap was looped through my tripod leg. The mounted Cambo/SK/IQ160 did a rapid face plant. Right in front of the system’s owner. I was borrowing it. Fortunately, only permanent damage was to tilt/swing lens mount.
WOW!Here you go - Leaf Aptus that had an argument with my Alpa STC when I removed the back. That was one way of justifying the upgrade to a P40.
A Bad Day In The Field ... Excuse the iPhone image.
RIP Sensor glass. Hopefully not the sensor too.
Thanks for sharing the storyI have of course had a few moments of horror, but somehow have managed to either forget them or block them all out of memory. The only one I remember was when a friend of mine, a priest of some years, asked me to photograph the ceremony of his final vows. At the time I had my Nikon F and was very very comfortable using it. So the ceremony goes on, I've caught a bunch of really nice photographs of the event. Afterwards, my friend comes over to thank me and pick up the film so he could develop it (he was the moderator of our high school photo staff, I was his chief photographer at the time). In a moment of complete brain fade, I whipped the back off the Nikon and grabbed/pulled out the film canister ... before rewinding it. Ugh. He processed the film anyway, most of it was a total loss, but there was ONE frame, about number five on the roll, that had an only slightly exposed stripe that we could salvage a photo of him.
I got ribbed from him over that one for years... LOL!
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