29#31 - It's Broken

It's Broken

 

This is my 29th submission for the October 2012 A month in Pictures project.

www.flickr.com/groups/photoadayforamonth/

 

My complete set of pictures for this challenge can be found here - MY OCTOBER 2012 SET

 

This is a shot of my beloved Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM wide angle lens.

 

I bought it in January of this year and it is the most favourite of my lenses and is the one lens that is always in my bag when I go out.

 

Unfortunately yesterday whilst on an URBEX trip with Steve K - my tripod with camera and the above lens toppled over and the lens is no more.

 

I turned round and can only describe what I saw as a slow motion sequence where the tripod was falling away from me and I was unable to get to it in time before it hit the floor.

 

The lens hood met the ground first and smashed into the three peices as seen above and the front of the lens hit the ground almost square on - amazingly neither the filter or the glass of the lens suffered even a scratch - about a third of the metal flange (in-front of the gold ring has gone and both the AF and manual focusng are totally kaput - the zoom still works however as can bee seen in the shot the focus it stuck beyond infinity..........

 

A call to the household insurance people will be made tomorrow...........

 

I have checked over the camera and it appears to have suffered no damage whatsoever - quality kit them Nikons !!

 

Nikon D7000

Nikon 35mm lens

F5.6 @ 1/60 second exposure

ISO 100

On-camera flash

Done