2 year old and a camera

smelltheglove

Well my 2 year old dropped my camera, my good camera, which was hooked up to the desktop downloading pics, camera works fine but the lens popped off, one of the plasticy rims on the lens which keeps it attached to the body broke, the lens works fine but will hang off the body, can this be repaired or is my lens now obsolete?

gorilla_image

sounds repairable, but if it's a cheap kit lens, might be better to buy a new(ish) one, a mate of mine bought a used Nikkor 18-55 VR for €70. Check out Dublin Camera Exchange, Conns and Berminghams, they normally have good deals... You could always use it as an excuse to upgrade to a better lens:)

Tallon

Id say it can be repaired, there's a guy in town who does good work but i'll have to root out his name

CabanSail

smelltheglove wrote: »

Well my 2 year old dropped my camera, my good camera

Sorry to hear that Rach. It's sad to lose a child so young. :eek: :pac:

Which lens is it?

What's the excess on your Insurance? (I am assumimng you have cover as you are working)

DaireQuinlan

If all else fails, dremel off the broken bits, wrap some light tight makeshift bellows around the thing between the mount and the remains of the lens body and you have a cheap tilt lens

smelltheglove

well I dont have kit insurance, i got pi with quinn direct and hadnt started the kit yet, my fault really, i just got up to answer the door, just looked at adverts and theres a few there, I'm constantly upgrading too so yep will most likely get a better lens but I am attached to this one, I always go back to it....

mrmac

Sorry to hear that. What lense was it?
I wonder if lense backs can be exchanged from one camera to another?
I know of a vivitar, with a nikon mount, that could be used as a donar

Failing that, I've a Nikon 18-55 VR that came with a D60, and an old Sigma 28-200 D Aspherical, that I never use much. You're welcome to a loan, until you get yours fixed.

Buzz Lightyear

Hi Rach,
Sorry to hear about the lens. This happened to me last christmas, only it was my fault leaving the camera on the locker, rushing to catch the kids faces when they saw what santa brought, only the strap caught on the locker and popped off my kit lens.

I found the couple of plastic pieces that hold the lens to the camera which snapped off. Pickup a bottle of super glue and glued it back together holding the plastic bits with a tweesers while the glue set. What had I to loose. Anyway I still have it and it works fine.

So go grab some super glue, a tweesers and give it a go. A new lens will cost more than the glue, and getting it professionally repaired it probably not economical.

smelltheglove

Buzz Lightyear wrote: »

Hi Rach,
Sorry to hear about the lens. This happened to me last christmas, only it was my fault leaving the camera on the locker, rushing to catch the kids faces when they saw what santa brought, only the strap caught on the locker and popped off my kit lens.

I found the couple of plastic pieces that hold the lens to the camera which snapped off. Pickup a bottle of super glue and glued it back together holding the plastic bits with a tweesers while the glue set. What had I to loose. Anyway I still have it and it works fine.

So go grab some super glue, a tweesers and give it a go. A new lens will cost more than the glue, and getting it professionally repaired it probably not economical.

lol I did exactly that but it didnt hold, mind I used it very sparingly, sure I'll try again, I have sorted out anyway a nikon 28 - 80 2.8 so if superglue fails at least I tried.

Also moved my insurance to photoshield and from Monday I will have all my equipment insured just in case!

SBPhoto

Sorry to hear about your mishap, but that is one of the reasons i use a card reader to download my photos. hope everything works out ok

smelltheglove

SBPhoto wrote: »

Sorry to hear about your mishap, but that is one of the reasons i use a card reader to download my photos. hope everything works out ok

Lesson well learnt now, I saw my life flash before my eyes.

Funny though, same 2 year old (nightmare) caused a leak in the ceiling today! Any offers for her???????:o

AnCatDubh

smelltheglove wrote: »

Funny though, same 2 year old (nightmare) caused a leak in the ceiling today! Any offers for her???????:o

All offers by PM or else definitely one for adverts

sineadw

I'll swap you a six and 13 yr old who just got drum kits each :eek:

Do you have home contents insurance? It might well be covered?

Buzz Lightyear

sineadw wrote: »

I'll swap you a six and 13 yr old who just got drum kits each :eek:

You're gonna be popular - ain't you

CabanSail

smelltheglove wrote: »

Any offers for her???????:o

How many Actuations has he had?

Is she clean?

What else in included in the sale?

As she is obviously not compatible with Nikon Gear I think I will pass.

smelltheglove

Oh my god Sinead how about you send them here and I go live with you, my hubbie would love drummer kids! We could leave the messy noisy ones here, aka hubbie, your 2 and my youngest and all us nice quiet girls can go to yours, me you and my sweet 6 yr old!

I am having such an unlucky week I cant wait for it to end.

oshead

Sorry to hear about the bad luck. Just shows you, 2 year old not only demand 100% attention, they also require it.

Fionn

thats bad luck!!!

on a lighter note, maybe you could get them their own camera? and perhaps they'd leave yours alone

if you want a further cringe, see my reply to the lost/damaged kit thread

mrmac

Did you manage to get the lense fixed?
What kind of lense is it, as it may be easy to order a replacement part?