Shot christening on sunday.
Day started with being locked out of the gear room - lock just disintegrated. Called emergency locksmith. $250, not bad for a sunday.
At the ceremony, dropped 5Dc and 85L(II) 1.2 from a height of about 3' onto a marble floor.
Camera repair $225
Lens repair $2400 or so, i.e. uneconomical to repair. Ouch.
Yikes, that is indeed an awful sequence of events! Makes me glad I've got a backup 85mm should I ever damage mine. I'm pretty careful, but do have clumsy moments, so I think it's only a matter of time before I drop something "big" like this :/
Just curious how it would be more to fix a lens to purchase a new one. That just does not make sense to me. Why even give you a quote for that much when it is basically unrepairable?
I didn't have CPS and my 85L II fell right onto concrete during a shoot, broken and wouldn't focus at all. It was out of warranty too, but I submitted it to Canon and they fixed it to my dismay, free of charge, though it did take 5 weeks.
