PhotoKlutz drops Digital Elph 4 times! Works as new!

[TechnoKlutz]

Twice out biking on the dyke with the case unzippered, and a couple of times on the sidewalk. Outside of a dent it's OK. Great little camera.

:o

[marie]

Twice out biking on the dyke with the case unzippered, and a couple of times on the sidewalk. Outside of a dent it's OK. Great little camera.

http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif

sorry about what happened
was there a picture ?

[TechnoKlutz]

The pictures were all ok, absolutely nothing wrong with this tough little camera for an amateur. Now if I could just get some help for my dropsies.

[pcasciola]

Now if I could just get some help for my dropsies.
What about using a wrist strap?

That's the only thing I don't like about tiny cameras, that they are easily drop-able, but I have to have one because I don't always feel like lugging around the 20D. I never dropped my Digital Elph, but my Casio Exilim EX-S3, which is less than half the thickness of the Elph, now has a broken LCD.

[TechnoKlutz]

Good suggestion. I'll start using mine which I have put away somewhere.

[Belmondo]

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Maybe I should Stickie this thread just in case this camera ever shows up for sale in Marketplace.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

[kb244]

Maybe a Nut-Strap, might re-condition you mentally from droping it all the time.

[kb244]

What about using a wrist strap?

That's the only thing I don't like about tiny cameras, that they are easily drop-able, but I have to have one because I don't always feel like lugging around the 20D. I never dropped my Digital Elph, but my Casio Exilim EX-S3, which is less than half the thickness of the Elph, now has a broken LCD.


When I had my Canon Powershot Digital Elph S210. I religiously wore the wrist strap, often times having it on my wrist then sliped thru between my ring finger and middle finger that would further prevent the strap from sliding off my hands and was still able to shoot just fine. Guess I just got very paranoid after being my first expensive camera years ago, I went from a 150$ Kodak 1.3Megapixel DC3400 , to the 550$ Canon Powershot S210, (Then to the Canon Powershot G3, then to the Digital Rebel, and now drooling over the possibility of a 10D, by the time I'm done gona have something that weights 20 pounds in my hands ).

[Littlenose]

Yep, I have to agree with the conclusions about this camera... my ixus400 goes almost everywhere with me, and as a result has been dropped several times, pushed off pub tables etc, and last summer it even survived the bashing after a wheelie i was attempting with magnificent skill went wrong ... doens't look _so_ new anymore, but it's certainly still taking pics like new :D

PS, please note the sarcasm... i fell off !!! :o

[TechnoKlutz]

Thanks for all the nice feedback. Belmondo I think you're using your camera upside down.

:lol:

[frazzm737]

I always wear my Digital Elph on a neck strap and then tuck it into the pocket of my vest. It is real secure that way, but always close at hand.

[Belmondo]

I don't know if this will make you feel any better, but I once allowed my 100-400L lens to roll out of the door of my pickup onto the ground. That one cost me about $300.00 for the resulting repair.

Things can always be worse.

[kb244]

I don't know if this will make you feel any better, but I once allowed my 100-400L lens to roll out of the door of my pickup onto the ground. That one cost me about $300.00 for the resulting repair.

Things can always be worse.

um 300 for repairs of your body for a coronary heart attack, or for the lens?

[Belmondo]

um 300 for repairs of your body for a coronary heart attack, or for the lens?
I now carry a portable defibrillator in my camera bag in case this ever happens again. :oops:

[kb244]

I now carry a portable defibrillator in my camera bag in case this ever happens again. :oops:

I'd probally carry with me a herd of rescue ferrets, for them to jump out at the lens and wrap their bodies around it, and absorb the shocks.

[Andy_T]

Twice out biking on the dyke with the case unzippered ...:o

Hmm ... maybe it's time to get the dyke a bike of her own :lol:

(Sorry, couldn't resist :lol: )
Best regards,
Andy

[Littlenose]

:o dropped mine again... last night, but this time the LCD back light has gone... ah well, £35 for a new LCD... has anyone managed to replace theirs? Is it easy?