Nearly had a heart attack!

**dullbird** · 29th May 2010, 01:56 PM

I noticed that a kookaburra had come strangely close to the house.

I went into the study and grabbed my camera bag got out the 70-200 and as I did I heard it rattle!!

My instant thought was OMG I have broken it, ironic as I asked Ian to call house insurance to ask if they would insure my gear...at the time they only insured the camera body as I need to call them back with all the lens details that I have

I took off the front cover and glass went everywhere.

it was the clear filter I put on for protection. last time I was off road it must of been to much for it...

I put the lens on and it wasn't behaving right...my god I started to panic again. then I took it off and put it back on fired off a few shots and all seems to be ok.

The pic looked ok and I looked at it in LR in 1:1 mode and everything looked reasonably sharp.

So lesson learnt here....I guess I need to start traveling with my hard case when off road now not the soft one..and leave clear filters off until I need to use the lens.

**Xtreme** · 29th May 2010, 02:04 PM

So where's the pic of the kookaburra?

**Xtreme** · 29th May 2010, 02:08 PM

Don't bother answering the above - I just saw your 'backyard diary' post.

**Cap** · 29th May 2010, 06:24 PM

I already nocked my D80 2 times, once on a rock when I slipped and another when I dropped it from about 50cm height, both times in its case - soft case but plenty padding. I too thought OMG!!!

**dullbird** · 29th May 2010, 07:10 PM

gets your heart racing hey

Still I would for go the body over my lens if something had to break the lens is worth 2.5 times more than the body

**Cap** · 8th June 2010, 12:00 PM

mmm, last nights photo shoot uncovered a hot pixel (green pixel) on my LCD screen... luckily this seems to only be an LCD prob and not a sensor problem!!!

Will just have to live with it until I get a D3

(in 10 years time)

**dullbird** · 8th June 2010, 04:02 PM

In 10 years time that will of been superseded by the D333033367891s

**CowsGoMoo** · 15th June 2010, 05:54 PM

I know of a guy who had just changed his lens while standing on the side of a river. He was shooting away when his toe nuged a "rock". So he wouldn't trip he gave it a bit of a kick and it landed in the river. Yup, not a rock but his 70-200 VR f2.8 lens. They don't swim.....

Put you lens back into the bag

**dullbird** · 15th June 2010, 06:13 PM

OUCH!!! now thats got to hurt

**Cap** · 15th June 2010, 07:32 PM

I had some dust on my sensor and bought a Giottos Rocket-Air pump. Luckily for me that the pump was good enough to remove all dust specs off the sensor.

Got the dust whilst changing lens on the beach with a slight breeze. Something to remember when changing lenses is to be aware of the environment your doing this in

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