Hi everyone ?
Ever killed a camera or lens in a really spectacular or interesting way?
I was shooting yesterday evening in the marsh on a barrier island here in SC. I was carrying the camera to a promising piece of driftwood when the lens board a nd lens did a slow-motion dive off the camera. If you?ve never been to southea st coast, we have this stuff called ?pluff mud?. It?s slimy and sticky and smel ls bad, and it?s no friend of anything delicate. ?Pluff? is the sound your Rode nstock makes when it lands. Yuk.
I?m usually pretty careful with lenses in the field. I figure I must have put t he camera back in the bag (with lens still attached) and somehow loosened the sl iding gadget that secures the lens board from the top. I?ll tug on it twice nex t time.
I freaked, of course. It was just covered in gray goo. I got it home as quick as possible and gave it a gentle and thorough cleaning. I was encouraged that the shutter still worked?.I may have gotten lucky on this one.
While we?re waiting to see if the patient recovers, I want to hear about your ex pensive ?oops? moments; the ones where time passes in slow motion and you exerci se your vocabulary of plumbing words.
I know I?m not the only one who ever had one.
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