I had a full day of headshots running from 10:00 in the morning to 16:30 in the afternoon. At 13:42 (looking at the frame timings), I caught my foot in the strap of my H-2S which catapulted my camera to the floor.
No swearing, be calm, the next person has entered the room.
I switched the camera on and off a few times before realising this was the state of my 56….
Right… Switch to the 90 (luckily the room was big enough), take a few shots of the room. Check the focus all over the frame. Yup looks good, the H2s seems ok (I always carry 2 bodies though). Continue for the rest of the day without incident.
Lessons?
- Always carry spares.
- Stay Calm
- Don’t fit the strap on days you do not use it (I never use the strap during jobs like this, preferring to rest the camera on a table when not shooting).
It’s the first Fuji lens I have broken although previously I have smashed two lenses (one by dropping the camera off a stage in front of over 1000 people! )
Hey Ho. Hopefully it can be repaired, if not I’ll have a new one in time for my next portrait shoot (in fact I might buy a spare of the 56 anyway as I use it so much).
Confession time.. what kit have you broken? (in the comments please).
Until next time
J x
Julie Edwards-X 
Ouchie..!!
What kit have I broken? Oh, lor. Recently, a classic little Olympus Trip 35, when its strap got tied up in my handbag’s strap when I was trying to get my stuff out of the car. The camera fell a foot or so onto the road, and it was trashed. Front of lens dented in, and the back catch was dented and twisted so badly that the camera could not close again once opened. The viewfinder was also damaged, with the red slow shutter speed flag do longer working, and visible separation in the viewfinder glass.
Compare that with a MInolta ST101b that I dropped from an RAF Puma helicopter up in the frozen wastes of northern Norway back around 1982. I was hanging out the door taking some shots as a stick of infantry were clambering on board. When the crew chief jumped back in and we started to lift, I stepped back and my strap caught on the door latch, which tore it away. The camera fell from my grip and plunged 30 feet into a snowdrift.
A couple of hours later, when we got back to that LZ, I went digging into the snowbank for it. Took me a while but I eventually found it, with just a minor dent in the top of the prism housing and the lens hood somehow missing. Hey Ho. Halcyon days!
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Wow – dropping kit from a chopper trounces my misfortune
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