Brandon Ching wrote:
My 5D which happened to be sitting on my pelican case accidentally fell from a height of 12" onto the carpeted floor but managed to have enough time to flip over, land on the Pocketwizard transmitter, crack in half and break the hotshoe into 2 pieces. This was only the 2nd time I used the PW's and now it's now being held together by superglue.

>_

Fraziers Photography wrote:
Thats great that it still works., I dont think we have any bldg 21 floors tall here in OKlahoma hehehe.

Not any more

Studio36

FKVPhotoGraphics wrote:
I attended a wedding at one time where the photographer dropped his Hassie from the choir section the church....2nd floor......when it hit the marble floor it sounded like a bomb going off.....scared the crap out of everyone in the church.....

All I could see were little pieces of metal scattered all over the place......and I think the photographer was cutting his wrists.....

Reading this hurt. ...A lot.
Ouch.

FKVPhotoGraphics wrote:
I attended a wedding at one time where the photographer dropped his Hassie from the choir section the church....2nd floor......when it hit the marble floor it sounded like a bomb going off.....scared the crap out of everyone in the church.....

All I could see were little pieces of metal scattered all over the place......and I think the photographer was cutting his wrists.....

If I could afford a Hassie I'd have it grafted to my hands.  Man.. I'd be in tears.  That or my rate for the wedding shoot would be $50K.

-PKD

Chip Morton wrote:
We were at a sports arena years ago watching some sort of WWF. Might have been Hulk Hogan. Yes, we were fueled by lots of beer. I was changinging lenses and I dropped my Nikkor 24mm. It went chink-clank-tong-tang rolling down about 12 rows of those concrete style seating arrangements. I retrieved it and still used it for the next 15 years.

Hehehe.. built tough those things.  Attach one to a Nikon F4 camera and you can use it as a sledge hammer.

-PKD

Fraziers Photography wrote:
Thats great that it still works., I dont think we have any bldg 21 floors tall here in OKlahoma hehehe.

Umm, there are alot of buildings in Oklahoma with 21 floors.... have you like, looked outside recently?


Every one of my old cameras is taped or rubberbanded together due to dropping them about 3 feet

Fraziers Photography wrote:
Thats great that it still works., I dont think we have any bldg 21 floors tall here in OKlahoma hehehe.

Here in Kansas, you could drop it from the first floor 21 times.

KMPHOTOGRAPHY wrote:

Here in Kansas, you could drop it from the first floor 21 times.

hahaha!

Brandon Ching wrote:
My 5D which happened to be sitting on my pelican case accidentally fell from a height of 12" onto the carpeted floor

12 inches isn't much of a fall, especially onto carpet.