BE careful with your equipment.

[Matt Sayle]

I have got a Cosina C1 film camera thing for college. It is a good enough camera. On Wednesday we had to go out and do a shoot. Whilst we were out it started to rain. So me and my mate started to run back. As we were running. I felt my camera bag go light. I turned my head to see what it was to see my huge something-260 and teleconvter 2x go through the air and land with an almighty bang. i was a tad worried as I thought I had knackered it. Turns out there a few scraches and The lens cap is cracked. It still works and fits on the camera. Could have been a lot worse.

Just be careful with your equipment.

 

[minky_monkey]

Ouch.

I had my 40D on my shoulder strap the other day after parking the car in garage. I also had my camera bag too. Normally I would`ve had the camera in the bag already, not in this case though.

As I closed the up and over garage door, the camera slipped off my shoulder and slid down my arm straight into the garage door. Luckily it`s just a few scratches to the body and a few to the LCD.

Not a happy bunny. Only caused through laziness though.

 

[MisterE]

If the lcd is like the earlier Canons then the scratches are actually on a protective cover which is cheap and simple to replace. It should be lightly glued on and easily removeable.

 

[minky_monkey]

I wondered about that, luckily they`re only light!

 

[Bolerus]

once (at my camera club) I didnt zip my bag up, and suddenly 4 or 5 people screamed YOUR CAMERA and 1 guy dived at me.

Yup my camera was falling out ofthe bag, only the fact that I had my big sigma 70 - 210 lens attached, and it made the camera a bit bulkier, saved it from a nasty tear wrenching fall. I knew buying that lens was a good investment

 

[Simmotino]

Cor, Cosina. I thought I was the only one who had heard of them (courtesy of my old 100-300 lens lurking in the kit bag!)

 

[mrgubby]

I was out riding my motorbike one day and hit a large bump. I left the seat & landed on my equipment.

Had to stop the bike & walk around coughing for a while.......

 

[BertRoot]

I had a Cosina CSM1 for years until I got burgled in the late eighties. A great piece of kit, used to love the little needle in the viewfinder telling me whether I was correctly exposed.

 

[MisterE]

Cor, Cosina. I thought I was the only one who had heard of them (courtesy of my old 100-300 lens lurking in the kit bag!)

I've got a small Cosina lens somewhere, not sure if it's Pentax or Olympus fit. Plus a fair amount of M42 screw for my Zenith B.

 

[68lbs]

I was out riding my motorbike one day and hit a large bump. I left the seat & landed on my equipment. Had to stop the bike & walk around coughing for a while.......

 

[Simmotino]

I've got a small Cosina lens somewhere, not sure if it's Pentax or Olympus fit. Plus a fair amount of M42 screw for my Zenith B.

This was the first lens I ever bought (to fit on a 300D film SLR from memory) and is, until tomorrow, my telephoto in the kit bag.

 

[mrgubby]

The pain involved in sitting on your own equipment is not a laughing matter

 

[Matt Sayle]

Cor, Cosina. I thought I was the only one who had heard of them (courtesy of my old 100-300 lens lurking in the kit bag!)

It is a great lil camera!!

I was out riding my motorbike one day and hit a large bump. I left the seat & landed on my equipment.

Had to stop the bike & walk around coughing for a while.......

I had a Cosina CSM1 for years until I got burgled in the late eighties. A great piece of kit, used to love the little needle in the viewfinder telling me whether I was correctly exposed.

Great, isnt it?!?!?!

The pain involved in sitting on your own equipment is not a laughing matter