Expensive lessons...

[kenj8246]

are the ones we learn best. Left my Cambo 45SR with an excellent Bosscreen GG in my car in the parking lot at work. Should NOT have done that. The paraffin between the glasses melted and ran, rendering it useless. Bet I don't do THAT again.

Kenny

[Bob Salomon]

Sorry for your problem but there have been lots of threads here about that very problem with a Boss Screen. But where do you think you will find another one?

[kenj8246]

Probably won't unless these folks are still in business: http://www.stabitech.nl/Bosscreen.htm Don't know that I want to pay their price, though. I just robbed a glass from an older Calumet I have. For now.

Sorry for your problem but there have been lots of threads here about that very problem with a Boss Screen. But where do you think you will find another one?

[Robert Opheim]

A friend of mine lost her Hasselblad equipment by being left in her car. Cameras can walk off quickly!

[StoneNYC]

Yup, I learned very valuable or rather very expensive one the other day, which is don't try to grab two camera straps at the same time, for two different cameras, because sometimes it's not really two different camera straps and it's really one that's bundled up and you end up picking up half of the other one and then having it fall onto the ground literally breaking the lens of the camera...

[alexn]

Dropping a box containing 24 exposed sheets of 4x5" E6 onto the floor, watching said 24 sheets spread across the kitchen floor, destroying months of shooting, hours of driving and potentially the best images you've ever made... Can you really put a price on that kind of stupid? Why did I not have rubber bands on that box? Why? what went through my head to make me think "Naah,... She'll be right buddy.. you're only walking across the living room to the fridge.. dont worry about it.." Not realizing that with a 3 year old and a 1 year old child my living room is a minefield of sharp, tiny solid plastic landmines hellbent on sending me through the roof and my box of film plummeting to the floor...

[StoneNYC]

Dropping a box containing 24 exposed sheets of 4x5" E6 onto the floor, watching said 24 sheets spread across the kitchen floor, destroying months of shooting, hours of driving and potentially the best images you've ever made... Can you really put a price on that kind of stupid? Why did I not have rubber bands on that box? Why? what went through my head to make me think "Naah,... She'll be right buddy.. you're only walking across the living room to the fridge.. dont worry about it.." Not realizing that with a 3 year old and a 1 year old child my living room is a minefield of sharp, tiny solid plastic landmines hellbent on sending me through the roof and my box of film plummeting to the floor...

Shit man, wow that's way worse than my broken lens

I always do 2 things with my boxes, ONE I only break the tape seal side but never the bigger label side so that it opens like a hinge, and TWO I always get a piece of gaffers tape and use that to re-seal the tape side, it will stick and unstick easily and repeatedly without losing adhesion and thick enough it's easy to feel in the dark.

This system has saved me a few times from your unfortunate event...

Example




Elastic would add "fool proof" to the system but doesn't stack well.

Just having the hinge bit is really a much bigger grantee of non-spillage.

Good luck with future navigation through the house.

[Kirk Gittings]

are the ones we learn best. Left my Cambo 45SR with an excellent Bosscreen GG in my car in the parking lot at work. Should NOT have done that. The paraffin between the glasses melted and ran, rendering it useless. Bet I don't do THAT again.

Kenny

been there-done that. That was the last Bossscreen I bought.......

[kenj8246]

Thanks, guys. I am now reassured that we all STILL do stupid stuff. I'm still out one Bosscreen. Did discover that someone has one for offer. We'll see.

Kenny

[pierre506]

It's a lesson.