I have been a member for quite some time, but this is my first post to the group, - Hi.
I'd like to hear your disaster stories. Here is mine:
Last week I was out shooting with my 4x5 camera. I have a Calumet 45nx with a 135 mm f5.6 Schneider Symmar S lens. When I picked up the camera and tripod to reframe the shot about a foot to the left, my tripod quick release failed and the camera tumbled in to the river. I use a arca swiss style quickrelease, i am not sure what happened, I must not have had it locked down all the way.
I had a similar instance happen about 3 years ago, the only difference is that at the time I was using a different type of quick release, and the quick release actually broke - presumably from the weight of the large camera. I actually switched over to the arca swiss style plate becasue of this.
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