Trip, splash, oh s**t

[hallsie]

As the title suggests, Ive dropped my bloody camera in my local fishing lake!!

Went fishing over the weekend, and as luck would have it, my mate caught a lovely 25 mirror carp that was well worthy of a decent pic.

To cut a long story short, I ended up tripping over my own rod and snapping that in two, fell over banged my wrist on the platform on the edge of the lake and dropped my Pentax K100D into the drink!

No chance of getting it back in 10 foot of water and silt and Im gutted.

On the plus side, it appears that I am covered on the accidental damage house insurance, and they have asked me to supply an equivelant camera spec so they can pay out on the quote!

Im not looking to take the piss, but when I purchased the camera it was around £480, and on top of that I bought a tamron 300mm lens and some memory cards (one of which is also in the drink!)and a filter for the lens.

So what do I do, get another Pentax or supply details of another camera that will do what the old one did?
Any paralell camera suggestions accepted!

Stu

[Mr Gearchange]

No help but I had a similar incident last year when I caught a mid 30 in the middle of the night - I doing a self take with the air release and I watched the tripod fall - in slow motion - backwards and into the lake when I caught the cable.

Bad times.

[danrc]

I dropped my phone in a lake last year and I had a heap of pictures on my memory card that i wanted back - I went dredging. I used the landing net and on my 3rd attempt i got it. Stuck it on the radiator for 3 days and then charged it - worked fine

[JakeS]

Can't really help with the new camera choice, but my father was taking a Panorama on a 15 foot tripod on a windy day. He didn't weight the tripod down. Gust came. £25,000 of camera ended up shattered on the floor. Insurance were not please.

[Simpo Two]

Mr Gearchange said:

No help but I had a similar incident last year when I caught a mid 30 in the middle of the night - I doing a self take with the air release and I watched the tripod fall - in slow motion - backwards

A similar thing happened to me at my second wedding - I'd set the tripod up on a table with a 70-200mm f2.8 but hadn't tightened the tilt lock enough. The camera/lens suddenly tipped forwards and that was enough to topple the tripod... I was about ten feet away at the time, but lunged and managed to catch the contraption in roughly the horizontal position as it headed floorwards at 9.81m/sec/-1. Amazing what you can do when you have to!

Simpo 1, Newton 0



ETA: Since then Newton has equalised...

Edited by Simpo Two on Monday 15th March 17:11

[hallsie]

Im glad to see Im not the only berk then!

Still need some info on what to ask as a replacement/cost from the insurance though?!?!?

[olimeads]

On the subject of accidents, i dropped my 400d + 18-55 + 70-200 + 50mm in a thin canvas bag off a 350ft drop in snowdonia yesturday, watching it crash into rocks and fall was horrible.
Scrabbled down the sheer drop, an hour later i found it, thinking the worst. Only broke a uv filter. One of those ohhhh fk tt st moments.


The moment was caught on video, just waiting for him to upload it.

Edited by olimeads on Monday 15th March 19:16

Edited by olimeads on Monday 15th March 19:20

[hallsie]

No ideas for a replacement then??

Looks like it will be between the pentak Kx, nikon 5000, or the canon 450.

[Simpo Two]

hallsie said:

No ideas for a replacement then??

Looks like it will be between the pentak Kx, nikon 5000, or the canon 450.

Well, it depends what you want, because we're not the ones that will be using it. If you like Pentax get the equivalent current model; if you fancy a change get a different brand of about the same price. Pound for pound you generally get what yer pays for; the rest is personal preference.