Yuck. That's an expensive pain. :-(
This is why I stopped using Manfrotto QR clamps. I had two near misses
at doing the same thing by accidentally hitting the release lever, and
I found they didn't hold the gear rigidly enough for precision in
positioning it. I switched to Arca-Swiss type clamps and plates ...
They're a bit more work to deal with, but are FAR stronger and more
secure, utterly precise in holding the equipment in place.
I hope the rest of your day improves too.
Godfrey
On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
Driving to work this morning I saw a couple of crows divebombing a
hawk perched in a tree. By the time I got there, the crows were gone,
bu the hawk was still there. I pulled over, put the 1.4x on the bigma,
put them on the K20 and put it all on the monopod.
After a few minutes of shooting one of the sections of the monopod
slipped. I lifted it up to lengthen it again and the quick release
manfrotto ball head released, dropping my camera, bigma and TC five
feet to concrete.
The damage to my two week old camera seems to mostly be to the plastic
housing, though the mode dial doesn't seem to work. No matter where I
set it, it works like it's in M.
The hood for the bigma is cracked. The zoom is now a bit tighter. On
the bright side it seems to have solved the zoom creep problem.
I hope the rest of my day improves.
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