My 24-105L just fell off my 5D mkIII and rolled into the Seine. The lens release button is way too sensitive and it is so easy to accidentally unlock without realizing it. I went to twist the zoom ring and the lens rotated and dropped off. Blog...
I’m a friend of a fellow New York pro photographer, Sportspro, who had been unitl recently an occasional contributor to this thread. Apparently he’s been ostracized from this forum after making an innocuous response to eebiggs about his pledge to tr...
I just find it curious that if the reason that Canon engineers designed the lens release button to be so large was because they set out to design a camera that you could operate with gloves on, then why did they make the buttons that everyone uses so...
" ... because the blame is solidly on the person using the camera and not on the camera nor on it's designers. This is one of those "Hey! You're doing it wrong, dummy!" conversations." Tim - Wow! I'm in my late sixties. I started with twin lens re...
@JoeDavid wrote:Sounds to me like you aren't making sure the lens mount click locks when attaching the lens in the first place. I've owned various Canon bodies and lenses since the EOS film line was introduced back in the mid 80's and have never had...
@xhack wrote:Something is not right here. Accidentally depressing the lens release button does not cause the lens to 'fall off'. When de-mounting a lens, there's at least 50º of axial rotation after lock release, with the first 40º offering a degree ...
