pants - tripod fell over

[poah]

petal off lens hood sapped, 430ex flash diffuser broken, bottom of 20D damaged kind of bent around the tripod hole. still appears to work though

[V6GTO]

know how you feel mate...I dropped my 20D and scrapped the winder/grip And at Brands last week I pulled the 100-400 out of the bag, took off the lens cap and lots of little bits of glass fell out. Boy was I relieved when I saw it was only the filter!

Martin.

[spdpug98]

I know how that feels, my cat knocked my D70 & lens off the wardrobe a couple of months ago, the lens was smashed but luckily the camera seems fine, it is not kept on the wardrobe anymore

>> Edited by spdpug98 on Thursday 9th February 20:04

[LongQ]

spdpug98 said:

I know how that feels, my cat knocked my D70 & lens off the wardrobe a couple of months ago, the lens was smashed but luckily the camera seems fine, it is not kept on the wardrobe anymore

Best to keep cats outside as much as possible I reckon.

[simpo two]

If I had the ability to give people their last one minute again, I think I'd be a rich man :-)

[poah]

I'll think about an insurance claim if canon release a 20D replacement

[badbeachbuggy]

If it makes you feel better, I've got a bent pin in the card reader in my 300D. Bizarrly two of my CF cards still work and two don't, I've been using it like this for months now!

What the hell were you using as a tripod Ross!

>> Edited by badbeachbuggy on Friday 10th February 08:20

[Bee_Jay]

Strongly recommend fixation in London for fixing things like this, and also for sourcing obscure little bits of plastic that get broken (like flash diffusers and focus panels on ST-E2s)

[dcw@pr]

V6GTO said:

And at Brands last week I pulled the 100-400 out of the bag, took off the lens cap and lots of little bits of glass fell out. Boy was I relieved when I saw it was only the filter! Martin.

best/only reason for keeping a UV filter on a lens all the time

[Bee_Jay]

dcw@pr said:

V6GTO said: And at Brands last week I pulled the 100-400 out of the bag, took off the lens cap and lots of little bits of glass fell out. Boy was I relieved when I saw it was only the filter! Martin. best/only reason for keeping a UV filter on a lens all the time

Why? Place a thin, fragile piece of glass on the front so it can somehow mysteriously break behind the lens cap and hopefully the broken bits can scratch the front element of your expensive lens?

>> Edited by Bee_Jay on Friday 10th February 14:38

[poah]

badbeachbuggy said:

If it makes you feel better, I've got a bent pin in the card reader in my 300D. Bizarrly two of my CF cards still work and two don't, I've been using it like this for months now! What the hell were you using as a tripod Ross! >> Edited by badbeachbuggy on Friday 10th February 08:20

manfrotto 055 and RC222 head. it was exteneded though so it fell a fair distance

[simpo two]

poah said:

manfrotto 055. it was exteneded though so it fell a fair distance

Blimey, I have an 055 and I can't imagine it toppling over unless maybe you had the legs too close together?

I nearly had a similar thing at the last wedding I did. Camera + 70-200 f2.8 + flash were on a Cullman tripod set up on a table with one section of the legs extended. Stable you'd think. Until the head suddenly subsided under the weight of the lens and the momentum was sufficient to send the C of G outide the tripod.

I was about six feet away when I heard the soft 'clonk' (alert as mothers are to babies crying). I glanced round to see the tripod + camera roughly horizontal and heading over the edge of the table earthwards. I was never known at school for my cricket fielding abilities but somehow I crossed that six feet in about 0.1 sec and caught it in time...

[poah]

I hit it with the baby's high chair though it was not the wind

[KB_S1]

Had 2 close calls with my D50 since getting it in December.
First one was at my folks house. They were away for a bit so Ichecked in on the house and cat, noticed that Linlithgow palace looked superb all lit up on a clear night so i set the camera up on one of those bendy tripods outside the upstairs bedroom window on a ledge. Next thing a flash and blur as hitherto unseen cat made a leap out the window towards the camera. Fortunately I caught the camera and the cat stayed out of my way.
second one was doing shots for a night club and as I made my way across the club I felt the camera strap go light, instinct saved the day and i managed to catch the camera with my foot behind me (wish someone got a shot of that).

[dcw@pr]

Bee_Jay said:

dcw@pr said: V6GTO said: And at Brands last week I pulled the 100-400 out of the bag, took off the lens cap and lots of little bits of glass fell out. Boy was I relieved when I saw it was only the filter! Martin. best/only reason for keeping a UV filter on a lens all the time Why? Place a thin, fragile piece of glass on the front so it can somehow mysteriously break behind the lens cap and hopefully the broken bits can scratch the front element of your expensive lens? >> Edited by Bee_Jay on Friday 10th February 14:38

because the filter often takes the brunt of the impact. ive had it happen to me, and ive heard of it happening to other people as well. the time it happened to me i dropped a lens onto concrete and the filter smashed, but no damage to the lens. i'm positive that wouldnt have been the case if it had been filterless.

[nighthawk]

I presume the tripod was set up correctly

The manfrotto 055 is a serious bit of kit which shouldn't topple with the weight of the 20d is it's set up with a leg positioned to the front of the camera. I've only ever seen tripods topple when a leg is set to the back of the camera and the lens weight has lifted the back leg off the ground.

Hope it doesn't work out to be too expensive

[simpo two]

KB_S1 said:

i managed to catch the camera with my foot.

Let me guess... then you did a bicycle kick and got it past the keeper into the top right corner of the net?

[KB_S1]

simpo two said:

KB_S1 said: i managed to catch the camera with my foot. Let me guess... then you did a bicycle kick and got it past the keeper into the top right corner of the net?

No, i just managed to look not too stupid in front of the group of girls i was passing
lucky as i got this later