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>the lens when I found it

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I broke my fisheye lens when one of the tripod's legs gave out

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>>4513670
the outside focuses with the ring, but the broken part in the center is fixed at something near 1:1, slightly macro even

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>>4513671
it kinda funny

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>finally decide to treat myself and upgrade my 20 year old setup
>R6MkIII and some wide L glass I've always wanted
>get in the car and head towards one of the state parks around me
>"eh, I dont need to bring my whole bag, I'll just put the camera on the front seat"
>beboppin down the local roads to get on the interstate
>round a corner and there is an entire family of geese in the road
>slam on the brakes not thinking
>camera launches into the dash and then slams to the floor
>pull over and the screen had opened but other than that no damage to the lens or body
>10/10 luck
>will always pack shit in my bag from now on

(pic related: FUCK these guys)

>>4513670
priceless desu

>>4513668 (OP)
>had 2 cameras RIP to the sun
>one mirrorless, one DSLR
>both repaired free from the manufacturer

>request a camera from brand rep to try out
>nothing, email to follow up, email again to follow up
>camera gets sent to me with no further communication
>never told to return it and no longer work for the camera store anymore
>too bad the camera isn awful to use

>up front at wedding getting ready for aisle shots
>phone in pocket
>forgot to turn off, it starts ringing
>yank it out power it off, set it up on a ledge
>happens so fast that most ever assumed it was a guests that I snatched and set aside

>>4513674
Don't stop for anything smaller than deers. Fuck those geese for shitting up my local lake. Makes sense they're Canadian, lmao!

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>>4513674
>place expensive electronic outside of protective unit because muh nothing ever happens mindset
>something happens
Brother it's like never using your seatbelt because you've never crashed. Lucky for you it just bounced around harmlessly but lenses can decenter their elements surprisingly easy so be fucking careful.

>>4513697
>request a camera from brand rep to try out
QRD?

>>4513847
>work at camera shop
>email our rep for whatever brand
>try out gear for a few weeks / months
Except this was for an older camera with a smaller brand, so I just got sent it and they forgot about it

>>4513847
Sony did this to me with an a7cII. I shoot weddings and have a youtube channel. They never got back to me, I got an a7cii, no communication. It was a good camera but it would heat up while off, something no one mentions online, so I think they sent me a QC reject unit assuming it was going to be demoed and sent back. I took some nice snapshits of a dog and sold it for $1300 to some black kid.

>>4513671
saved. nice shot

Does it have to be gear related or just in general?
>trying out street photography and portraits
>there's some guy that looks really weird and interesting
>ask him if i can take a photo
>guy goes into some insane rant about there being nothing in it for him, demanding money straight up and then following me for a while shouting and demanding money because he thinks i already took the photo (i didn't)
I also asked the same of some interracial couple (black guy and some really old white woman) and they also went into some insane tirade that I don't even remember the details of, also ending it with demanding money.

>>4513941
lesson learned: just snap away
people hate us anyway lol

>>4513697
>had 2 cameras RIP to the sun
Can you elaborate on this?

>>4514045
He probably did long exposure for 30+ seconds too often in the sun or recorded video non-stop for long periods in the sun and cooked the sensor.

>>4514100
Why would you do a 30+ second exposure in bright sunlight?

>>4514111
Likely put an ND filter on and wanted to capture flowing water or to have it remove people from a photo of a busy city, there's a few good reasons like that but at the same time doing that regularly in the sun isn't a good idea.

>>4514113
Well if the ND filter was dark enough to do a 30+ second exposure in the sun then it would be no different from doing a 30+ second exposure in low light from the sensor's perspective.

>>4514114
Maybe or maybe not, I'm just guessing here. OP would have to say how he did it specifically. There's even other dumb shit like just leaving the lens cap off with the sun hitting the sensor directly for a long time without even taking a photo.

>have 10 day holiday to dream destination
>fucked around a lot with my camera
>decide to factory reset so everything is "clean" again before my trip
>forget to turn on RAW
>bunch of jpg only pictures
>cry

>>4514142
defaults are best buy/walmart demo settings. why would you do that? i dont even reset ebay cameras because the last guy usually set it to raw and bbf like every camera should be

only boomers and the retarded still use jpeg and af with shutter

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>>4514045
>nikon d2h with 50 f1.2 AI-s or 85 f1.8 af-d, cant remember
>camera on tripod pointed towards subject with setting sun behind, basically picrel but with the sun getting lower and more direct
>taking pics, camera locks up, turn off and on, nothing, removed lens and small amount of smoke comes out
>look inside and see burn marks on the edge of the mirror
>nikon offered free d2h service for a certain issue, even outside of warranty back in 2010
>nikon did a free courtesy repair, and camera came back basically all new, af-d screwdrive stopped working soon after though

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>>4514045
>xpro2 with xf 50mm f2
>firmware update adds 4k video
>chilling in back of store, just recording at whatever
>sun is reflecting from from cars grill in front of store, enjoy this ai recreation
>don't really pay it much mind, camera keeps working perfectly fine
>later on, starting doing shots at f5.6-8 and noticing tons of odd shapes like dust or hairs
>take of lens and see the damage
>send in to Fuji expecting the worse, repaired as just a 1st year warranty repair for free

I have seen someone else post similar looking damage on a XPro2, but theirs was caused by a laser.

>>4514147
Oh I agree I was stupid.
I was taking a photography course and we had tested different settings (metering, shutter types, drive mode, white balance, etc) for different assignments that at some point I thought I'd better start blank instead of checking everything again.
I was just lazy, last time I did that.

>>4514147
>af with shutter
what's wrong with shutter AF?

>>4513668 (OP)
>be me
>work second shift so I am always up at 1 AM
>decide Imma do some nighttime star trails
>bust out Yashica D TLR, mount it on tripod, ready to rock and roll
>hell_yeah.jpg
>cold as hell outside cus winter
>do a bunch of short stuff (like 30 second to 10 minutes)
>decide its time for the big one
>1.5 hour exposure
>let it rip
>fast forward 1.5 hours
>pack up, develop it next day
>I forgot to cock the shutter only on the last frame
>mfw I froze my ass off for nothing
this hobby is a cruel mistress sometimes

>>4514142
How did you not notice for 10 days? Did you never move a single image off the card?

>>4513668 (OP)
I just had the strangest dream
>be me
>staying in a cheap holiday place
>spent like $300 for a few nights
>winrar
>except the place is a bit of a dump
>time to leave
>someone has a shower and leaves the JBL speaker on in the bathroom after
>go in and turn it
>look at the taps in the shower
>they explode
>huh, this place rly is a dump
>go out into the living room
>the bookshelf on the wall to the bathroom fell over
>shit shit shit
>liftan.webm
>dat_form.jpg
>huh? my camera?
>oh shit
>it’s totally wrecked
>everything that could fall apart fell apart
>it’s now camera, front of lens, barrel of lens and back of lens
>pick up the barrel and look through it
>the glass elements were squished
>well that just ain’t right
>put it down and go out to check out the DVDs on sale outside

>>4514185
brutal

>>4514182
Nothing. If anything decoupling shutter AF is boomer coded.
It was very relevant with early DSLRs, because you were incentivized to use center point AF focus and recompose.
With mirrorless, it's not really as necessary since we don't need to focus and recompose, and AFL/MF is all you need in the certain situations that call for it.
On the flip side, some cameras offer extra MF functionality when in MF mode, and you can just use a button for AF to get the best of both worlds.