Broken Lens

3/1/2015

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!!

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.

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".

Farrah Lily link

3/1/2015 09:08:16 am

Phew!!

Babel

3/1/2015 02:47:15 pm

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

Martha

3/2/2015 03:11:50 am

I know

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.

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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