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p.1 #1 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

I was at a sporting event and saw this pile on the ground. You can tell they are for work not pleasure..

I say if they are going to treat them like that they sould have to give to a good home like mine

Aug 15, 2004 at 12:59 PM

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p.1 #2 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

Why? They are working, professional tools, not collectibles. Anyway, that is just a small zoom. I've seen 600/4s with dirt kicked on them.

Aug 15, 2004 at 01:20 PM

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p.1 #3 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

Just a light moment.....Why so serious...

Aug 15, 2004 at 01:30 PM

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p.1 #4 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

Is that a new shooting position for the feet??

Aug 15, 2004 at 01:51 PM

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p.1 #5 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

The Camera is in the right place; The empty juice box is not

Aug 15, 2004 at 02:34 PM

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p.1 #6 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

If he had payed for it, you can rest assured it would not be on the dirt.

Aug 15, 2004 at 03:07 PM

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p.1 #7 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

Funny, when is the last time you saw a multi-thousand dollar laptop lying in the dirt? That is just a "tool" also.

He should be smacked.

EB-1 wrote:
Why? They are working, professional tools, not collectibles. Anyway, that is just a small zoom. I've seen 600/4s with dirt kicked on them.

Aug 15, 2004 at 03:24 PM

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p.1 #8 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

The problem is that laptop manufacturers make cheap pieces of crap that must be placed in a shrine to last more then a couple of years. Lenses are made better.

He has just set it on the grass; it is hardly going to damage it.

Aug 15, 2004 at 03:28 PM

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p.1 #9 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

Would you rather put your camera in a place it could fall off of?

There's nothing wrong with the ground, as long as you're aware of your surroundings and don't have someone else come step on it.

Aug 15, 2004 at 03:59 PM

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p.1 #10 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

Actually it's safer to have that lens on the ground than a non-L, as it is better protected from the elements. I'd prefer to see a piece of cloth under it, but as above as long as nobody kicks it there shouldn't be any problem.

Aug 15, 2004 at 04:01 PM

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p.1 #11 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

Lying on the ground in front of you is probably not ideal but at least it cannot be dropped. However lying on the ground just behind your heels is just plain careless.

My local photographic dealer regularly shows me lenses traded in - or brought in for repair - from other professionals that look as if they had been given a daily spin in a concrete mixer. These are not front line war correspondents but ordinary jobbing professionals who are just plain careless about how they treat their gear. Personally I believe that your working tools should be used - not abused.

Aug 15, 2004 at 04:25 PM

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p.1 #12 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

lou wrote:
If he had payed for it, you can rest assured it would not be on the dirt.

You got that right. And he'd probably be the first person to whine about how Canon gear seems to collect dust do badly. Hmm, so set the thing right in the sand/dirt.

Aug 15, 2004 at 04:43 PM

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p.1 #13 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

I'm more careful with my hammer drill.

This is the same guy who'll post it for sale saying how he takes meticulouse care of his equipment.

To each his own, but its a good advertisement for not lending your gear.

Aug 15, 2004 at 04:59 PM

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p.1 #14 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

when i shot a john kerry rally here in seattle, it was just pouring down rain out, and on the media podium i saw a 70-200 2.8 and a 16-35 just lying, not even on bodies, just on the metal of the podium

Aug 15, 2004 at 05:25 PM

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p.1 #15 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

I don't see a problem with the camera being in (dry) grass. Mine has been there quite often over the past 20 years, and I can't think of a malfunction or even scratch as a result from it. I am more careful with mud and sand as well as water, but if one of your alternatives is to have two cameras hanging off your neck, I think the ground is a much better solution, esp. if it's grass like here. Two bodies banging against each other can't be good...

My lenses and esp. lens hoods have some signs of wear on them. That's because I use them in any weather, from my living room to climbing a mountain. I don't throw it against rocks, but I don't have them on display in a glass cage at home either.

- Stan

Aug 15, 2004 at 05:51 PM

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p.1 #16 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

lou wrote:
If he had payed for it, you can rest assured it would not be on the dirt.

That is not really true at all. Pros use thier equipment and buy the best for its durability and reliability. Priority No. 1: get the shot that counts. If that involves puting some of their gears on wet/dirty ground, so be it. It happens all the time. Pros do NOT intentionally abuse their system, but they use them and won't hesitate to subject them to hostile environment if that is what they have to do to get the shot.

Aug 15, 2004 at 06:30 PM

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p.1 #17 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

slau wrote:
Priority No. 1: get the shot that counts. If that involves puting some of their gears on wet/dirty ground, so be it. It happens all the time. Pros do NOT intentionally abuse their system, but they use them and won't hesitate to subject them to hostile environment if that is what they have to do to get the shot.

That is exactly how I feel, and I am not a photographer!

EB

Aug 15, 2004 at 07:06 PM

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p.1 #18 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

Assuming the guy is a pro, the cost of the lens in question is just an annual consumable for him. As someone said, nobody abuses their equipment intentionally, but surely nobody babies it if it potentially means not getting the winning image.

Nathan

Aug 15, 2004 at 07:31 PM

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p.1 #19 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

1. Tripod collar still on lens, yet unused..
2. Additional body left in grass with nothing guarding mirror, shutter, or sensor.
3. Omni bounce diffuser with telephoto outdoors

Oh, maybe he put it on to protect the plastic fresnel lens.

Aug 16, 2004 at 02:49 PM

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p.1 #20 · How do you treat your "L" Glass

It's an ant photographer taking a portrait of his wife - he's probably using the empty juice carton as a reflector.

Aug 16, 2004 at 03:28 PM


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