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Broken Lens

3/1/2015

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Yesterday I accidentaly dropped my camera (only the second time ever) It was in it's 'strawberry case' but it landed right on the lens. I felt sick, hoping my camera wasn't broken. Then when I tried to take a photo, the camera wouldn't focus or shoot. Then I really felt sick. We were at Niagara Falls to see (and photograph) all the ice everyone had been raving about, and I couldn't believe I just wrecked my camera. I looked at the lens and the UV filter was completely cracked. After screwing off the UV filter and trying again, the camera worked just fine.  Whew, what an incredible relief!!
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So, there's my very first photography tip for anyone with a real camera - protect all your lenses with a UV or glare filter.  I do, and that $30 investment saved my expensive main lens.  Today I went straight to Henry's to purchase a new one.
7 Comments
marianne
3/1/2015 06:03:21 am

whew!!! What a lens saver. Glad the rest of the camera was undamaged.

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Martha
3/2/2015 03:11:26 am

No one more than me! I'd be totally lost without my camera. I don't even know how it fell in the first place. Only once before did it fall out of the car somehow, but that time it fell just a little over 18".

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Farrah Lily link
3/1/2015 09:08:16 am

Phew!!

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Babel
3/1/2015 02:47:15 pm

You were very Lucky ...... Martha .......

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Martha
3/2/2015 03:11:50 am

I know

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Jane
3/2/2015 03:08:36 am

*phew*
That was such a near miss!!! And I can imagine how sick you must have felt ((hugs))

My husband bought one of these for me when I first got my DSLR (years back) for exactly this reason.

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Martha
3/2/2015 03:15:14 am

I was standing there at the Falls and my camera wouldn't work. I felt devastated. Here we were at one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World, and I had broken my camera! But then after screwing off the broken filter, the camera worked again. But it took awhile for the stress of the entire situation to fade.

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