Comments on: Camera insurance never looked so good http://www.wadelaube.com/blog/camera-insurance-never-looked-so-good/ Photography, etc. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mattias Backström http://www.wadelaube.com/blog/camera-insurance-never-looked-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-997 Mattias Backström Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:30:07 +0000 http://www.wadelaube.com/blog/?p=1315#comment-997 While on a visit in California I was shooting the sunset in Laguna Beach with a friend the other week and had my Canon 5D Mark II on a tripod. Two guys came down to the beach and made me sort of suspicious because they were standing very close to my camera bag containing my Canon 70-200 mm f/2.8 IS lens, so I moved my gear further up along the beach where my friend stood with her camera. We'd been shooting for like 20 minutes without getting our feet wet by the waves, but all of a sudden a rather big wave came rolling into shore. It knocked my tripod to the side and I saw my camera bag float off up on the shore :( My friend's camera got splashed, but she managed to grab it before it was knocked over. I ran up to my camera bag and poured out the water, almost expecting there to be fish and crabs in it. But sand and salt water was enough. I didn't even want to look at my former white lens that now had turned brown by all the sand covering it. Chaos. My 5D Mk II wasn't cooperating very well, and I turned it off for the day, hoping it was just a nightmare and that it'd wake up again after the shock. My friend was devastated because she was the one who wanted to go to the beach the most. She said she'd rent me a new body the next day so that I could have something to shoot with during my visit. Late the same night I had gotten a lot of sand blown off from my camera, and it did actually work again! Morning arrived and we went to downtown L.A. to shoot some architecture, and my friend was kind enough to at least rent us a 70-200 f/2.8 at a camera store ($90 for a week isn't all too bad) so that we could get up close. Everything was fine. But then the display on my camera stopped working and the auto focus gave up. Disaster! Somehow I managed to get it to work again after half an hour, and we got some nice shots during our day in the big city. But the next day the display stopped working again, and I went back to Sweden with a busted camera and lens. The service center wanted $200 just to look at the camera and lens and they'll give me an estimate withing three weeks, if the gear is worth trying to repair. I guess I'll never go down to the beach again to shoot. I've learned my lesson...
While on a visit in California I was shooting the sunset in Laguna Beach with a friend the other week and had my Canon 5D Mark II on a tripod. Two guys came down to the beach and made me sort of suspicious because they were standing very close to my camera bag containing my Canon 70-200 mm f/2.8 IS lens, so I moved my gear further up along the beach where my friend stood with her camera.

We’d been shooting for like 20 minutes without getting our feet wet by the waves, but all of a sudden a rather big wave came rolling into shore. It knocked my tripod to the side and I saw my camera bag float off up on the shore :(

My friend’s camera got splashed, but she managed to grab it before it was knocked over. I ran up to my camera bag and poured out the water, almost expecting there to be fish and crabs in it. But sand and salt water was enough. I didn’t even want to look at my former white lens that now had turned brown by all the sand covering it. Chaos.

My 5D Mk II wasn’t cooperating very well, and I turned it off for the day, hoping it was just a nightmare and that it’d wake up again after the shock. My friend was devastated because she was the one who wanted to go to the beach the most. She said she’d rent me a new body the next day so that I could have something to shoot with during my visit. Late the same night I had gotten a lot of sand blown off from my camera, and it did actually work again! Morning arrived and we went to downtown L.A. to shoot some architecture, and my friend was kind enough to at least rent us a 70-200 f/2.8 at a camera store ($90 for a week isn’t all too bad) so that we could get up close. Everything was fine. But then the display on my camera stopped working and the auto focus gave up. Disaster!

Somehow I managed to get it to work again after half an hour, and we got some nice shots during our day in the big city. But the next day the display stopped working again, and I went back to Sweden with a busted camera and lens. The service center wanted $200 just to look at the camera and lens and they’ll give me an estimate withing three weeks, if the gear is worth trying to repair. I guess I’ll never go down to the beach again to shoot. I’ve learned my lesson…

]]> By: Michael Roach http://www.wadelaube.com/blog/camera-insurance-never-looked-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Michael Roach Wed, 05 May 2010 07:13:54 +0000 http://www.wadelaube.com/blog/?p=1315#comment-152 The amount of times our equipment has taken a serious knock whist shooting are too numerous to count. Thank god for insurance or we would be out of business.
The amount of times our equipment has taken a serious knock whist shooting are too numerous to count. Thank god for insurance or we would be out of business.
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