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
are the ones we learn best.
Kenny
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?
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.
Originally Posted by Bob Salomon - HP Marketing
A friend of mine lost her Hasselblad equipment by being left in her car. Cameras can walk off quickly!
Mum used to live in a quick paced part of town. Every Christmas, when the refuse collectors were on holiday and the rubbish piled up, Mum would save all the gift wrapping paper and boxes. Sometime in the week after Christmas she would carefully pack turkey carcass, uneaten Brussels sprouts, old mashed potatoes, in fact everything nasty that needed to be disposed of, into the boxes and gift wrapped them with the old paper and some fresh tape. Then she would pile all this onto the back seat of her old car and leave it parked unlocked in a convenient side street for twenty minutes to half an hour. On her return, all the rubbish would be gone and because the car was unlocked and of little value it would be left undamaged and not stolen.
Irresponsible of course...
RR
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...
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...
Chamonix 045N-2 - 65/5.6 - 90/8 - 210/5.6 - Fomapan 100 & T-Max 100 in Rodinal
Alexartphotography
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.
This and the New Zealand trip sound like the worst to me.
While I've ruined my share of film, including a roll where I was less than 10 feet from a wolf while driving on the ice roads I've never lost that many sheets at once, taken over that period of time.
For me it was not having a camera case shut and lifting it up. My Rare M42 mount 200mm f2.8 Zeiss fell from my car onto the pavement. It bent the hood, however it still goes on very tightly.
The lens does still work good, and always gives me breathtaking images, when I shoot 35mm or digital.
been there-done that. That was the last Bossscreen I bought.......are the ones we learn best.
Kenny
Thanks,
Kirk
at age 73:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
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