WHAT happened to this shutter?

[RichardRitter]

A lot of ready go stories for why this shutter failed.

Let me baffle you a little more the second shutter was also damaged (deformed) but not as bad.

[Phil]

Richard,

This is easily a disqualification! The White Mountains are in New Hampshire and the Green Mountains are in Vermont.

I'd just send him one of those "Brake for Moose - It could save your life" bumper stickers as consolation prize.

[Sirius Glass]

Richard,

This is easily a disqualification! The White Mountains are in New Hampshire and the Green Mountains are in Vermont.

I'd just send him one of those "Brake for Moose - It could save your life" bumper stickers as consolation prize.

Vermont ... isn't the state motto "Live, Freeze and Die"?

Steve

[David Karp]

The shutters were in a case for shipping and then entrusted to airline personnel.

[sanchi heuser]

Photographer was carrying his equipment 10 miles through Alaska.
Photographer built up camera.
Photographer was waiting for good light.
Photographer got hungry.
Photographer was eating a chocolate bar.
Photographer did not clean finger.
Photographer puts a lens on the ground.
Big bear came and confused the lens with a chocolate cake.
Big bear tried to eat the lens.
Big bear destroyed the lens.
Big bear found the photographer's lunch bag.
Big bear walked away with the bag.
Photographer got very hungry.

[Steve Goldstein]

May as well throw my hat into the ring...

Since you gave the hint of a second shutter that suggests both were in some kind of common case or package. The photographer put the case down near the edge of some sort of precipice, and it somehow went over and down a long way. Some along its rapidly accelerating journey it struck just right and sheared.

What happened to the glass?

[Jim Graves]

Or ... and, I've almost done this ... twice: The photographer set his lens bag down while he opened the car trunk ... loaded the rest of his gear in the trunk ... forgot about the the lens bag and wondered what that bump was when he backed up.

[jnantz]

dropped the lens/es while installing them on the camera ?

[Paul Kierstead]

Since I am sure plain ol' dropped lenses are a dime a dozen to richard (he has to have seen more then a few), I'd expect this one has to be something more 'original' to warrant the interest.

[RichardRitter]

Glass is OK had to be cleaned