Dropped another lens!!

Lord_Malone wrote in post #2698499
Woo Hoo! I've got you beat! I've dropped the 35L (broke it too!), 80-200L, 70-200 2.8L IS and the 50L!

Butterfingers!!!

Gosh Tom, I can't decide if are lucky or unlucky. But I am glad Nifty was all you had to worry about. If you keep this up you'll have to stock up on extra shorts or a package of Depends!!!

Lord_Malone wrote in post #2700030
Ls are pretty resiliant to drops. Not surprising considering the build quality. Try it!

funny you should say that. I dropped my 17-40 and that still works well.

Lord_Malone wrote in post #2700030
Ls are pretty resiliant to drops. Not surprising considering the build quality. Try it!

Ah yes - last saturday my 20D & 16-35 did in fact leave my hand and impact the ground. Good thing it was only a couple of inches away from terra firma, bad thing was that my body had fallen from a couple of feet at the time so less skin on the knee & elbow than there used to be but at least the camera/lens isn't damaged.
Given there were at least 6 other POTN'ers there at the time and none of them witnessed this, and thus didn't record the event, I think myself thankful.

belmondo wrote in post #2700132
Oh cripes...I forgot.:o

Wait....I thought I was going to give it to one of the women. They always seem to smell so much better.

Any kind of perfume you like in particular? I could always use another lens.

Ahh... its ok!! We play tackle football with my 70-200!!

Oh, wait, to all of you that were looking at my lens to buy... i was just kidding... heheh..

belmondo wrote in post #2698243
It's true. Actually, I didn't drop it. My BIL did when he was helping me empty the trunk of the car. He grabbed my Mini-Trekker, and it was partially unzipped. A lens fell out, bounced a couple times on the garage floor, and rolled under the car.

Now I guess you know I carry some pretty expensive glass in that bag including my 50mm f/1.2L. My 24-105L is in there as is my 16-35L.

We finally fished the lens out from under the car, and it turned out to be my Thrifty Fifty. I guess that's why it bounced so many times. Anyway, I just took some test snaps with it, and it seems to be just fine.

I am now going to go change my undergarments.

BelMondo, I resent your lens dropping stories...If they cause me to go back into intense 6 month therapy it'll be your fault! And furthermore, this is a family site, so enough with your horror tales!

Steiglitz wrote in post #2703838
BelMondo, I resent your lens dropping stories...If they cause me to go back into intense 6 month therapy it'll be your fault! And furthermore, this is a family site, so enough with your horror tales!

I've got a better one. It's in the Vista/Epson thread here.

If you think YOU were lining up for an underwear change, think how your BIL was handling it...

If it was one of my relatives, they would still be running!

I won't even comment on dropping that lens. I don't even consider it a lens; it's a toy.

As to your Vista plight, that was incredibly funny. As my dad would say, as funny as a clown at his own funeral.

I bought my wife an HP 17" notebook at B&H this past Sunday loaded with Vista. I hope the fact that a 400 pound dude dropped dead at the counter and was rushed out by ambulance personnel furiously performing CPR to no avail, after which one of the bosses said to some stunned employees: All right, back to work," doesn't place bad karma on the notebook which I'll give her for Valentine's Day.

mark

MDJAK wrote in post #2704931
I won't even comment on dropping that lens. I don't even consider it a lens; it's a toy.

As to your Vista plight, that was incredibly funny. As my dad would say, as funny as a clown at his own funeral.

I bought my wife an HP 17" notebook at B&H this past Sunday loaded with Vista. I hope the fact that a 400 pound dude dropped dead at the counter and was rushed out by ambulance personnel furiously performing CPR to no avail, after which one of the bosses said to some stunned employees: All right, back to work," doesn't place bad karma on the notebook which I'll give her for Valentine's Day.

mark

Gee. I've been to B&H a couple times, and they never put on a floor show while I was there. I feel left out.

belmondo wrote in post #2700132
Oh cripes...I forgot.:o

Wait....I thought I was going to give it to one of the women. They always seem to smell so much better.

*raises hand*

I was away for the weekend when I dropped my step-dad's 70-200. I almost shot myself. I was already thinking about what I'd tell him if it wouldn't work properly. I'd be dead, he'd take all of my gear to compensate for the lens.

I never told him this because it was still fit as a fiddle.

tazzman270 wrote in post #2698699
Keep your zippers done up or somethin important is sure to fall out.

That's true in more than one sense.

Hmm, after reading this thread, I think I should go out and get me a nifty-fifty to increase the odds that the next lens I drop will NOT be one of my more expensive ones. AAMOF, I think I'll go get two nifty-fifties to even better the odds.

Better pick up a couple of film Rebels too, to help protect your 1Ds.

belmondo wrote in post #2698243
It's true. Actually, I didn't drop it. My BIL did when he was helping me empty the trunk of the car. He grabbed my Mini-Trekker, and it was partially unzipped. A lens fell out, bounced a couple times on the garage floor, and rolled under the car.

Now I guess you know I carry some pretty expensive glass in that bag including my 50mm f/1.2L. My 24-105L is in there as is my 16-35L.

We finally fished the lens out from under the car, and it turned out to be my Thrifty Fifty. I guess that's why it bounced so many times. Anyway, I just took some test snaps with it, and it seems to be just fine.

Now that's frightening...how many L's did you have in that same bag?

belmondo wrote in post #2698243
I am now going to go change my undergarments.

Was this why your first shot with your new lens was in the aforementioned?

T.D. wrote in post #2700085
True!

But I consider "your" 300, "my" 300. Remember? You were going to give it away since you don't use it and you like me best?!

There he is, trying to edge out your rightful heir again!

belmondo wrote in post #2700132
Wait....I thought I was going to give it to one of the women. (NAMELY PERMIE!) They always seem to smell so much better.

YES!!!