Lemons to lemonade.

[Bonhomme Richard]

I can't believe what I did this morning. I'm driving in to work and I stop to take some photos of horses near my house. I put my D300 back in the bag but don't zipper it shut. When I got to work I opened the shop, went out to my car and grabbed the bag. Don't you know my camera falls out on the concrete and my tamron 70-300 lens just snaps in half. I was in shock. More afraid for the camera than the lens. When I calmed down I checked the camera and it seems to be OK except for some nicks. The lens went to the trash.
Lemonade...I decided that this was a good thoing because it pushed me to replace that lens which I was hesitant to do because of the money. I thought screw it and ordered a nikon 70-300 from B&H and am happy about it.
One from this morning.


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[Bonhomme Richard]

1. I can't get over the reproduction color changes from....

what I see in my Mac and what I see after I post. Though I am looking using a pc now. Big difference. Talk about color management.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. Now that I check it out on the mac...

the color seems decent.

[alfredo]

3. Lovely. Those pixels go through a bunch of changes from you sensor to your browser.

Compression can play havoc to our images.

[sir pball]

13. Is everything calibrated?

Mac-v-PC shouldn't matter much anymore since we all use the same gamma these days; I find that the first day or two of shooting with a new sensor always looks off, until I get a chance to sit down with EZColor and get everything in line.

Also make sure your uploads are in sRGB, Adobe RGB gets real screwy when you try and put it online.

Also - beautiful shot! Colors look great to me.

[RC]

4. I keep my bag always closed, except when removing or putting something back in.

Helps to keep out the dirt, if nothing else. A clean bag inside, means less fuzz on the lenses and cameras. Less chance of getting dirt on the sensor when changing lenses.
I believe in lens covers on both ends of unused lenses, too. I've seen too many photographers just drop them, uncapped, into their backpack, or whatever they use, to deal with later.

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. Crazy thing is that I am usually fanatical about it.

I won't make that mistake again. I need to slow down. But hey, I got a new lens and I will like the VR feature.

[Solly Mack]

6. Very pretty!

The thought of a lens breaking makes me physically ill.

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. I was more concerned about my D300.

The truth is that I was wanting to replace the Tamron I had but didn't want to spend any money right now. The decision was made for me. I will like the VR on the new lens.

[Solly Mack]

10. Well, yeah. I would have been as well.

But since the camera seems to be OK I was mourning the lens.

Glad you like your new lens. I got a 55-300 for my b-day a couple of weeks back and I love it!

[Sherman A1]

12. Indeed

The thought of a lens breaking leaves me cold.

Icky, just icky......

[Earth_First]

7. This happened to me while on vacation in December...

Although it was my 5D and a 28-135 mm

I had been drinking on the island all day and on my way back I was in a hurry at the security checkpoint on the ship and dropped my whole rig. You should have seen the look on the one woman's face!

No issues so far, thankfully...

At least you got lemonade out of it!

I would be making 70-300 2.8 L IS lemondade...

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. I wish I could afford the 2.8

That's not the case yet.

[ManiacJoe]

11. The Nikon 70-300mm VR is a great lens.

Even if you have one of the f/2.8 zooms.

[sir pball]

14. Happened to me three

Unzipped bag and all, spang went my 18-70...it was actually still usable, but the extension tube was amusingly crooked and it had some horrid vignetting on the left. Picked up a Tamron 18-270VR on the relative cheap at B&H and I never looked back..

[ljm2002]

15. Lovely photo!

You got that horse to pose!