{"id":750,"date":"2010-03-15T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=750"},"modified":"2011-09-13T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T12:51:12","slug":"ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/ouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drizzly conditions make for slick pavement, which is great for photos but dangerous for walking. While photographing this flower vendor on the streets here in Hanoi about an hour ago, I stepped on a wet curb, slipped and fell, dropping my Mark II with the 16-35 f2.8 as I went down.<\/p>\n

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\nI saw the camera leave my hand, and watched its trajectory in slow motion, then heard that nasty shattering sound and saw some glass flying out past the lens hood as it hit concrete. All the Vietnamese sidewalk vendors gasped and frankly I feared the worst too. Picking up my camera, which had landed with the lens facing away from me, I was thinking to my self; this could be expensive, As I turned the camera towards myself I noticed that it was only the UV filter that had been obliterated. The lens\u2019 front element was intact. I did a quick examination of the camera body as I picked the last chunks of remaining glass out of the bent filter ring.<\/p>\n

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\nI snapped off 2 frames; one of the crowd that looked on in horror (above) and one of the noodle shop guy who was standing next to me (below). Everything seemed to be working fine, so I showed the noodle guy the back of my camera, he broke out in a huge smile, the crowd cheered and I breathed a sigh of relief, raised my camera up high, smiled back at everyone and went on shooting.<\/p>\n

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\nDamn, these Canon Mark II bodies, and the pro quality lenses are built tough! I’m not so sure that a lesser quality, cheaper built camera and lens could survive this type of accident. Just another chapter in my “Thrashed Canons”<\/a> story.
\nCheers, Karl<\/p>\n

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