Sold my Pentax K-01 for parts today 🙁
Just shipped off my full-spectrum converted Pentax K-01 today. In case you hadn't heard from my constant complaints on social media, the shutter stuck issue took it's life a few weeks ago. I pursued getting it repaired, but it was too costly. I didn't buy the camera for very much, and I could sell it for parts and recover more than half, so I went that route.
If you saw my video (rant) about it you know I wasn't too fond of the K-01 design. But I did really like the images. It was my first full-spectrum camera. I will definitely be getting a new one someday. I was just getting my feet wet.
I know @sirfrankski had a camera break on him this year. This is only the second time for me, with the first being a cheap Canon point and shoot that was totally my fault. I was adding home made lenses to the front of the lens and jammed the lens so it wouldn't retract. Has anyone here had a camera they like break? How do you cope? (Mostly kidding. It's not really that sad, just a bummer). 😉
My Fuji XT20 got ran over by a snow plow after a blizzard in the hangar parking lot, I still have what's left of it, it had the 18-55mm F2.8 kit lens too. I had text my girlfriend if I had left it in her car, but low and behold I knocked it out of mine in the deep snow we had that night when I had grabbed my Fly Away Tool Kit and Duffel Bag since I was about to disembark for a week of NCAA March Madness tournament and a few military charter flights. The snow was at least 24-30 inches deep when I came into my work parking lot. I was in Savannah Georgia at the hotel after we had just landed and spent the night at Hunter Army Airfield two days after I had it left, when one of my work buddies text me what was left of it.
I paid $1100 for it, at the time when it came out. It's probably the driving reason I've learned latest and greatest ain't worth it, as well as buying pre-owned gear. I think I might cast it in epoxy as a reminder to be more careful. It's still sitting in my work locker.
I was in South Italy 2 years ago and came across this nice water fall while driving through the non-touristy streets. We stopped for a swim quick dip and afterwards, started preparing for a shot. I had a Fuji X-E2 with XF 16mm 1.4 attached to it. Took a couple on one side of the river but the perfect shot is across it. Figured I could easily cross the river as the waters were shallow. I underestimated how slippery the rocks / boulders were. I had the camera around my neck and tripod on my left hand, slipped, and dipped it in water for a second.
Long story short, the camera didn't survive but the expensive lens did.
How did I cope? I fully switched my main gear to Pentax.
I haven't had any major gear disasters yet, and y'all are making me sweat some bullets here fearing my gear's untimely demise haha
Quote from SpruceBruce on July 1, 2021, 5:19 amMy Fuji XT20 got ran over by a snow plow after a blizzard in the hangar parking lot, I still have what's left of it, it had the 18-55mm F2.8 kit lens too. I had text my girlfriend if I had left it in her car, but low and behold I knocked it out of mine in the deep snow we had that night when I had grabbed my Fly Away Tool Kit and Duffel Bag since I was about to disembark for a week of NCAA March Madness tournament and a few military charter flights. The snow was at least 24-30 inches deep when I came into my work parking lot. I was in Savannah Georgia at the hotel after we had just landed and spent the night at Hunter Army Airfield two days after I had it left, when one of my work buddies text me what was left of it.
I paid $1100 for it, at the time when it came out. It's probably the driving reason I've learned latest and greatest ain't worth it, as well as buying pre-owned gear. I think I might cast it in epoxy as a reminder to be more careful. It's still sitting in my work locker.
That's so sad!! It would be hard to spend that kind of money again on a new setup.
I have dropped one lens before and broken it. That's the extent of shattered and broken camera bits in my possession. Actually, I think I sold it for a little bit of change. No idea what the new owner planned to do with it.
