Objects in this camera are closer than they appear
Posted June 7th, 2009.
This happened quite a while ago, but now that I look back on it it’s worth sharing.
At the time I had recently bought a new 10.5mm fish-eye lens for my digital SLR and decided there might be some good photos for the taking at my local beach.
If your not familiar with a fish-lens there and extremely wide angle lens which distorts your perspective greatly. A person standing 1 metre in front of you may might appear to be 5 metres away depending on your lens.
So on with the story. Being the sensible fellow that I am, I stood a good distance from the shore to see how far the waves were breaking over the rocks so as not to get my new toy wet. With each breaking wave I crept closer to the edge of the rocks, to be as close as possible to the breaking wave when taking my photo.
By now 20 or so waves have come and gone and I think I’ve found the right distance for my shot. Wrong…
By now you’ve probably figured that the reason there are no more photos in the post is that after the last one I was too busy getting hit in the face by a surprise wave.
My camera was obviously toast, luckily I wasn’t hurt. My girlfriend found the whole process hilarious and I came out of it with a good story so it wasn’t a total loss.
I was lucky enough to know the service manager for Nikon at the time this happened, a few days later and with a bottle of scotch waiting as his reward he was able to fix my some-what salty camera and I was back in action.
Good times…
What was the last “brilliant” idea you had?
This is brilliant! Love that you stood your ground. Which camera was it that you broke?
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Jem,
It was a Nikon D1H. I tried getting it fixed through conventional channels but it was a few years old at the time and no one seemed able.
I was lucky enough to have the friend I mentioned who worked for Nikon, he managed to salvage it for me with a few spare parts.