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Yup as title, at this weekends Grand Prix Masters event at Silverstone I managed to drop my 1dmkII camera body with 1.4x TC on, but no lens, it fell about 5 foot onto concrete, bounced down 2 more concrete steps and came to a rest TC down.... I nearly cried.
I was rushing to take the TC off the 300mm lens, I had the lenses strap over my neck and not the camera starp, I unfastened them and held the onto the lens... and watched as the camera fell.
I picked the camera up, removed the TC, which looks fine, I now realise the next thing I did was stupid, I slapped the 300mm on and turned it on.....
I was shocked that it appeared to be working, all bar a few scratches to the body, it didnt look at all damaged, the buttons, the screen the Card door, all seemed perfect.... I tried taking a few shots and this is when I actually started to cry, the shutter button no longer has 2 positions, it simply fires off a shot when pressed, I tried the portrait shutter button and that did the same, I quickly remapped the * button to AF/AE and tried taking shots like that and it worked. I think ive been quite lucky, obviously I will now need to get it and the TC repaired and recalibrated and will be ringing the CPS UK Pro-Repair number tomorrow to try and arrange this.
Overall, im amazed the camera still worked at all, and that the images taken after the accident appear to be perfect is truely astonishing, these cameras seem to be very well built, I know for sure if it had been my old 20D it wouldnt have survived the impact.
I was rushing to take the TC off the 300mm lens, I had the lenses strap over my neck and not the camera starp, I unfastened them and held the onto the lens... and watched as the camera fell.
I picked the camera up, removed the TC, which looks fine, I now realise the next thing I did was stupid, I slapped the 300mm on and turned it on.....
I was shocked that it appeared to be working, all bar a few scratches to the body, it didnt look at all damaged, the buttons, the screen the Card door, all seemed perfect.... I tried taking a few shots and this is when I actually started to cry, the shutter button no longer has 2 positions, it simply fires off a shot when pressed, I tried the portrait shutter button and that did the same, I quickly remapped the * button to AF/AE and tried taking shots like that and it worked. I think ive been quite lucky, obviously I will now need to get it and the TC repaired and recalibrated and will be ringing the CPS UK Pro-Repair number tomorrow to try and arrange this.
Overall, im amazed the camera still worked at all, and that the images taken after the accident appear to be perfect is truely astonishing, these cameras seem to be very well built, I know for sure if it had been my old 20D it wouldnt have survived the impact.