The exact moment this photographer broke his $800 lens
Sep 26, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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What do you do when you shoot in the harsh wind? Well, photographer Mathieu Stern learned it the hard way that he should add weight to the tripod when it’s windy. Although he has quite a collection of cheap vintage lenses, the wind managed to tip over the tripod with his camera and an $800 Sony E 10-18mm f/4 lens. Since he was shooting the video at that moment, he accidentally captured the unfortunate event, too.
Mathieu was shooting his previous video we featured, when he tested three vintage lenses with the same model. You can actually see in that video that the weather was very windy. As a result, Mathieu’s camera that recorded the video tipped over together with the tripod, causing his $800 lens to break. The plastic broke, and the lens can’t zoom anymore.
So, learn from Mathieu’s example and always add weight to your tripod. It can be your or some sandbags, whatever will make it more stable. I’m sure it was horrible to see the camera falling down and being unable to do anything. But still, Mathieu took it with a lot of humor and helped us learn from his mistake. And hey, at least the camera survived.
[The exact moment I broke my $800 lens |Mathieu Stern]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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12 responses to “The exact moment this photographer broke his $800 lens”
Once more, the proof that being able to buy expensive gear doesn’t make one a photographer… :-(
What a weird statement to make in regards to this incident? As if no professional photographer ever makes a mistake in their life.
Gosh, my heart got broken :( at least he has sense of humour, though… :( (but it was his fault, in the end)
Last week I almost dropped a €6000 150mm schneider lens. I felt dead inside for a second.
Shit happens. It’s just a tool. So what?
More youtube clickbate.
That was a great little video ??
had the same with my tamron 70-300, as it was pretty crap anyways I decided to take it apart, took out the broken piece of plastic and managed to fix it. Now it zooms again :D even autofocus works. So just send it right this way if you want ;)
A 1:30 min video with maybe :20 sec of actual content. Hmmm. Maybe try to keep the content-to-filler ratio above 1.
I’ll stick with my silly old heavy DSLR that ignores wind thanks.
Not mine but it still hurts to watch… however, with that wind going, is almost better to call off the day.
yuh hate wind eh? Come to Oklahoma. it’s windy 98% of the year. makes out door portraits a massive pain in the kiester.