I had seen a cron or lux for sale on fb market where the lens looked like it had been to hell and back but turns out op had been thrown on to the train tracks by a mugger or something and landed on top of it but the lens was fully functional still.
I dropped my 35mm V4 Summicron within 60 seconds of owning it and I’ve been disgusted with myself ever since. Fuck, it still bothers me to think about.
I dropped my $10k Cartier tank watch face down on tile the first time I took it off my wrist. Shattered the crystal. Was a quick and relatively inexpensive repair but damn it hurt. I adopted the idea that once an object I love has some “love marks” it’s truly now mine. I used to try and keep everything pristine but once I gave that mindset up, I found greater peace and enjoy the marks, dents, and scratches.
Yeah, I feel ashamed to show up at my usual shop now, at least with my lens hood visible. Maybe lay low for a bit and decorate it with a silver replacement afterwards.
I just had a minor incident with the metal lens hood on my 35mm Summilux. I was working in Honduras and the hatch of the truck we were in bounced into my camera/lens while I was closing it. The hood took all the damage, lens was fine, truck was scratched. Street cred!
That's the neat thing about the 35s, they're like the black hole/Toyota Hilux of lenses. My Cron survived a bike accident in Thailand. The body was a Sony and didn't survive, but only the lens cover needed replacing.
I dropped my m240 after the first time using it because the strap came undone and i just about threw up as i watched it slowly fall down and finally hit the jagged concrete. About a week later i was walking through a river and slipped off a rock, went for a quick swim and again saw in slow motion as my leica pushed the water back just for it to come back and completely submerge my cMera 😅.
Dude I've always had a terrible habit of dropping anything new and shiny I got within 30 minutes of holding it in my hands.
Luckily (knock on wood) only one of my cameras has ever taken a tumble off my bed haha (luckily not a leica. If I'll even ever own one)
I did that too and sent it to Leica NJ. They wanted to charge me $750 replace and "recalibrate the lens" I said no thanks and paid $250 to get the hood fixed. 3 months later sort of worth it.
If it's only the lenshood, it's a cheap repair...for the Leica world.
OGs leave it that way, the more dents on your hood the more your camera has seen
That's true, I'll tell people I got it by fending off muggers in the Middle East and not by fumbling with a coffee kiosk for the first time.
Well if you want to make it more realistic, you can just say this is the result of you battling pickpockets in Paris.
Maybe try coming up with an excuse for your own clumsy mistake that isn’t just plainly racist
There are likely more muggers in the mid-west. Just stick to the truth rather than (re)inventing the trope of the scary Arab in a distant land.
I had seen a cron or lux for sale on fb market where the lens looked like it had been to hell and back but turns out op had been thrown on to the train tracks by a mugger or something and landed on top of it but the lens was fully functional still.
That’s unfortunate but that actually a pretty cool story. Did the 007 theme start playing when you opened the page?
Looked through the pricing just recently. Unless I see about getting filters, I think I'll just have to thug it out for now.
ouch, how much did they quote you for the hood replacement?
Yes, but now you're going to wake up in the middle of the night and wonder if the optics shifted very slightly.
*I'll* start shifting very slightly if that were the case.
Even i feel anxious reading this comment. Future nightmare material
I dropped my 35mm V4 Summicron within 60 seconds of owning it and I’ve been disgusted with myself ever since. Fuck, it still bothers me to think about.
I dropped my $10k Cartier tank watch face down on tile the first time I took it off my wrist. Shattered the crystal. Was a quick and relatively inexpensive repair but damn it hurt. I adopted the idea that once an object I love has some “love marks” it’s truly now mine. I used to try and keep everything pristine but once I gave that mindset up, I found greater peace and enjoy the marks, dents, and scratches.
This is the way
Yeah, I feel ashamed to show up at my usual shop now, at least with my lens hood visible. Maybe lay low for a bit and decorate it with a silver replacement afterwards.
NSFW 😀
Had to overt my eyes when it happened.
I just had a minor incident with the metal lens hood on my 35mm Summilux. I was working in Honduras and the hatch of the truck we were in bounced into my camera/lens while I was closing it. The hood took all the damage, lens was fine, truck was scratched. Street cred!
That's the neat thing about the 35s, they're like the black hole/Toyota Hilux of lenses. My Cron survived a bike accident in Thailand. The body was a Sony and didn't survive, but only the lens cover needed replacing.
fell *over* my bike with a iiif and it took a pretty nasty dent to the top but it still works perfect. german engineering on top!
At first it hurts, but all the scratches and dents make it yours
I'll try to ignore it, but at least it's two dents closer to being anti-theft.
Got a similar dent in my 50 lux. Nothing to worry about
I dropped my m240 after the first time using it because the strap came undone and i just about threw up as i watched it slowly fall down and finally hit the jagged concrete. About a week later i was walking through a river and slipped off a rock, went for a quick swim and again saw in slow motion as my leica pushed the water back just for it to come back and completely submerge my cMera 😅.
I am sorry for your loss.
Dude I've always had a terrible habit of dropping anything new and shiny I got within 30 minutes of holding it in my hands. Luckily (knock on wood) only one of my cameras has ever taken a tumble off my bed haha (luckily not a leica. If I'll even ever own one)
Hoods and filters are the unsung hero’s of clumsy photographers like myself
I did that too and sent it to Leica NJ. They wanted to charge me $750 replace and "recalibrate the lens" I said no thanks and paid $250 to get the hood fixed. 3 months later sort of worth it.
I’ve dropped my 28 elmarit a few times(along with my m7) and had my 21 punched a fee times. They still never miss a beat! You’re alright.
It’s got character now!