2 Fat Dads

“Jamais Deux Sans Trois” is a french expression meaning that events always happen in threes. And usually it’s associated with bad luck. And of course this perfectly sums up the past couple  of weeks worth of tech disasters.

It pretty much all started when I went on a cross-country ski trip a few weeks back. I had been taking some pictures of the frozen lake and the kids playing in the cabin and after placing the camera in the bag but not zipping it up, I decide to move the bag to a safer place than the coffee table. Big mistake, of course and with my nice Pentax 75-300mm lens mounted and the extra weight of the battery grip attached, the camera slipped out of the bag and crashed lens first onto the solid wood floor. Everyone heard the shattering of glass and the loud thud of the camera body… The log cabin suddenly became very quiet and as I took a deep breath and picked up the camera to inspect the inevitable damage, I was relieved to find out that it was the glass from the UV filter that has shattered and that the lens appeared to be intact. In fact, after further inspection the only real damage was the filter ring was now lodged into the lens thread and would have to be removed with some special tools. There was no way I was going to take a vice-grip to it and risk damaging the ring forever and even worse having the tool slip and scratch the actual lens. So I bit the bullet, and took to my local photo shop, Photoco, and they sent it their pro who will remove the ring and clean up the lens for just over $40 CAD.

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