Broken Lens Horror Stories

When was the last time you put premium gas in your rental car ? Or washed a rental car for that matter ? Or were heedful with a U - haul truck ? You were n’t . Because it ’s not yours , and that is the design we see some time with our train at BorrowLenses.com .

Though the factual percentage of gear that gets damaged is very little compared to the overall book of equipment we send out , over the years there have been a few , uh , interesting stories of people behave badly with our equipment …

5 . Oh see , what a courteous lens system on eBay

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In the movies malefactor are always exceedingly cagy , but not so in real life . Recently an alert customer of ours designate to a lens for cut-rate sale on eBay that had the discrete markings of one of our materialisation . What grading ? The bar code we put on every lens that clearly reads “ BorrowLenses.com . ” As it turns out , our customer had lease the lens system , and then sell it to a cat’s-paw shop . Luckily the equipment was easily retrieved by winning the auction and work with local jurisprudence enforcement to put the culprit behind bar . Yes , we do prosecute to the fullest extent of the constabulary .

4 . This is why you should always corrupt insurance

The floor behind this electron lens disaster is n’t too complicated – a customer break away over it with his gondola . Somehow it ended up on the soil , and he backed over it . In the end it work out okay for us though ; we used it to help persuade people to buy policy as you may see .

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3 . Someone is catch a ride in a 7D

To be fair , we ’re not certain how this one bechance , but the client sent it in with a very detailed drawing of where exactly the job was . We have no idea how an worm could retrieve a mode inside the viewfinder of a camera , but it just speaks to the broader point here — anything can happen to gear in the wild , and it often does as you ’re about to find out .

2 . What we went through to get you the Steve Jobs story

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You call up the story about Steve Jobs ’ family being demolished , correct ? And about how we enunciate the ride was a bit rough up there in Woodside ? What we did n’t tell you was there was a violent storm brewing that solar day , so we make up one’s mind to have a light lunch before our flight to give the clouds some time to excrete . It was n’t until we were up in the tune and being jostled to and fro that we memorise the woodworking plane we rented did n’t admit any air sickness udder . foresightful story short ; one of the shooters tried to exclude his lunch from the backseat of the plain through the open windowpane , and failed , miserably . Even though he was literally covered in disgorgement from headspring to toe , he steel himself and fix the pellet . These are the lengths Gizmodo goes to to bring you exclusive newsworthiness .

1 . This is what happens when your support system is short

Even if you purchase insurance policy with your rental and the lens gets put down beyond all acknowledgement , we still need to see a carcass as substantiation of the destruction . Otherwise the lens system is simply “ confused , ” and that ’s not covered by insurance . body of water equipment casualty is also not cover by policy , as that is considered “ negligence ” by most insurance policies . If you have expensive electrical equipment so closely to a trunk of weewee that it falls into it , that ’s your fault , period . And such a thing happened awhile ago , to a valet de chambre shooting wildlife with a Canon 600 millimeter f/4 50 IS lens from the sharpness of a lake . It turns out his tripod was not tough enough to adjudge the behemoth lens , and when he released the tension on the ballhead the entire setup fall ass over tea kettle into the lake . The only problem ? The lake was overrun with alligators , so he had to engage professional divers to think the carcass . We got the lens of the eye back , and finally sell it for parts on Craigslist . Here is what it looked and sounded like before we offloaded it .

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