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alicia954
890 days ago
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Got any camera fiascos, catastrophes, or disasters?
Have you ever dropped your camera off the side of a boat? Put a roll of film through the laundry?
I have done neither, but I have two "fiascos", one of which turned out to be not too unfortunate.
At college, put together alcohol+ male a cappella+ thermos of coffee, and what you end up with the next day is sadly, a busted 35mm camera. This was almost 6 years ago now, but the camera was doused in coffee and never turned on again. There is still an almost finished roll of film inside, and I have never tried to get it developed. I'll be in for a surprise I'm sure, if the pictures turn out.
When I was a kid, on my first 35mm camera, I rewound the film but forgot that I had, and somehow the roll started all over again. (Clearly, very high tech). So, when I got the pictures developed, they all had two images, one on top of another. It's probably the coolest roll of film I've ever shot.
What about you?
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John
890 days ago
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Besides forgetting batteries and memory cards (of which I have plenty of spares now) I was shooting a festival with my 20D and 28-70 L on a monopod. I have a KATA bag which is the offspring of a camera bag and a hip pack. I *thought* I had the camera strap around my neck and was balancing the 20D and monopod on my chest as I was setting up my second camera. The 20D and monopod fell, in one of those slow-motion falls. And kept going. The funny thing is that if it had fallen a few degrees to the right or left it would have missed the pavement and hit the grass. Camera and lens were OK though I have a dented outer filter ring that I need to send to Canon for repair when I can get a few weeks I can be without it.
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alicia954
890 days ago
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Ouch! Yeah, I think we've all had those "slow motion" moments, which we wish were actually that so we had time to react!
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Sarah_h
889 days ago
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I got my digital SLR for Christmas in 2005, which happened to be my son's first Christmas as well. So obviously with a new toy & a 9 month old baby I took *heaps* of photos. My hubby kept telling me to check out the setting & as I was, I somehow I managed to format the compact flash! Let me tell you I was soooo not happy, but he (the computer genius!) managed to get them all back after 4 hours fiddling on the computer!
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John
889 days ago
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Quick formats (usually what your camera does) and trashing files on memory cards or pretty much any other data doesn't really delete the data, only the directory structure. Think of it like a book that has the table of contents ripped out. All the pages are still there.From there they can usually be easily restored with a number of excellent programs. My favorite is the Active File Recovery Pro suite. $45.00 but worth every penny if it keeps you from telling a client that their data is gone.. 
During a format or delete all of or part of the 'table of contents' is gone so your operating system will put new data on the drive right over the old stuff. If you make a mistake and delete or format - STOP. Do not write anything more to the card. Put it aside until you can unerase the card.
This is good news right? Catch 22. While memory cards behave this way - so do hard drives.. That is why it is not good enough to format a hard drive before you sell or give away a computer.
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brantvalli
er
883 days ago
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I was walking up a flight of stairs with my 20D and 70-200 2.8 on it, over my shoulder. I tripped, and the camera and lens fell forward, hitting one of the edge of the stairs with a dull *thwack*. Didn't think much of it, because it wasn't a hard impact, or so I thought. My friend with me asked if it was okay, to which I replied "ehh, it ought to be."
As we step outside the college doors, I look through the viewfinder and hit the autofocus. Nothing. Twist the focus ring, and I get a gross grinding feeling, as if there was sand where there should be well-oiled components. I go to twist the zoom ring, and it's almost seized.
A few shouted obscenities later (as I hadn't even put a payment on the credit in which I purchased the lens at this point), I noticed that the only reason the zoom ring wasn't moving was because it was dented, and that the autofocus still worked (just needed to wrench it to a certain spot, and the autofocus motor kicked in).
It still works without too much problems, only that the zoom ring needs a lot of moxie while turning it to zoom out. This just means I shoot almost always at 200mm while shooting action, which usually results in better pictures. (Tight and bright! as my professor would say)
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brantvalli
er
883 days ago
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That said, I'm looking to send it into Canon to get the zoom ring replaced if possible and get the focus looked at, which will probably cost me a couple hundred bones.
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Karol A
883 days ago
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Shortly after I got my DSLR, I participated in the annual Chesapeake Bay Bridge walk. Before this camera, I used a point and shoot Sony - so there was a bunch of stuff to learn on my new-fangled contraption. And, rather than spending time studying the manual, I winged it - trying for the most part to leave the settings on auto until I got more familiar with what all those buttons did.
But, I didn't check any settings to make sure I hadn't accidentally made any changes. Let's just say I learned ALL about white balance AFTER I took about 50 shots of the bridge and the spectacular (and super-colorful) boats participating in the Volvo Yacht Races that came up the Bay so we walkers could get a good look.
What I learned later was that having your camera set for really warm indoor light will turn your outdoor photos a sickly shade of blue. Ugh.
I saved quite a few and now have some nice black and white shots -- but I'm sorry I don't have pics of the multi-colored sails against the Bay...
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TinMan13
883 days ago
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Heh. My Maxxum 7d was brand new, I baby my stuff, and my sister in law contracted with me to shoot her wedding. SO, we begin the bridal portraits and, at a total of 956 images from emergence from the box, it quits. No fanfare, screaming, grinding, just no action but bright flashing lights everywhere.
I call Konica-Minolta and they tell me 'No problem, ship it to Jersey, we'll get it back in about 4 days.' The wedding is 5 days away. I got it back three weeks later, no explanations, wound up shooting the wedding on film, the cost of the rolls and processing and enlargements led to a deficit in my pocket. Lesson learned: No favors, no bargains, and weddings suck.
Since then, almost 20,000 images later, no more screw ups. With the camera, anyway.
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ShutterMus
e
881 days ago
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I bought my first DSLR... hadn't even made a payment on it yet when I took it to the outer banks along with my dog for the first time. There were 10-16ft swells... I didn't think anything about it as I took my dog to where the waves were right at my ankles, in seconds a large rogue wave swept us both off our feet. The Nikon, the puppy and I all survived. But my heart was in my throat for a little while there.
C~
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alicia954
828 days ago
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And yet another to add to the list: a few weeks ago I spilled my cup of coffee all over my desk, where my camera AND laptop happened to be. Both were ok, but I was panic-stricken for hours! I hate how dependent I am on gadgets...
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ben-s
827 days ago
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This is a scary thread 
Mine oddly enough, was not any abuse I gave the camera, but a genuine failure...
This was on my EOS 300D.
I went to a teslathon (AKA high voltage demonstration - lots of photogenic sparks)
I set up, metered, fired a test frame or two to check the exposure, and all was well. So I started shooting properly.
Ten minutes later, I decide to chimp the screen and see this:
Oops.
I demounted the lens, and that seemed fine. I looked in the mirror box, and that looked OK too.
I left the lens off and fired the shutter, and to my horror, the little half-mirror that you shouldn't be able to see was hanging straight down, blocking half the image.
I was very glad I had the film camera with me then - I had almost left it at home, but changed my mind at the last minute.
It all turned out well in the end though, as the digital camera was repaired on the insurance, and when I had my films developed, I found I had really nailed it
That spark is 12 feet long - the current UK record!
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jtsmith2
827 days ago
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Holy crap! How did I not hear about this?? I think I almost cried when I saw the burning lenses. Ah the struggles of a broke photography enthusiest.
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ben-s
827 days ago
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The sight of a burning 300 f/2.8 and other L series glass nearly made me cry too.
It's a pain being broke. As someone on another forum I use says - "Photography is not for the faint of wallet"
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Jaqian
824 days ago
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I was out walking along the Royal Canal with my 2yr old son in his buggy and I stopped to take a photo of a swan and throwing bread to it to help it pose
I had put down my Fuji S9000 behind the buggy and was talking with Daragh and helping him throw bread when the swan got out of the canal and started snapping at my son. Quickly I pushed him back out of the reach of the swan and aimed a kick at the swan, which didn't connect. I then started spraying him with Daragh's juice bottle (it was in my hand). Don't think it liked that as it went back into the water.
I went to pick up my camera only to find the lens wedged into the back wheel. Only thing I could do was yank it out. Thankfully it still worked although it had some nasty scratches to the aluminium of the lens barrell.
Later I discoverd that the swan had a nest about a quarter of a mile further up the canal and it considered me in his terriority.
I also had a Polaroid camera with me. Here is the same swan taken that day:
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