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Dumb Idea

Posted by oot skoot (St. Paul, United States) on 21 January 2007 in Miscellaneous and Portfolio.

Don't ever put your lens on another camera from a store/in the store...because you might feel a little stupid when you discover that you can't take your lens off... ....yeah...

So here is the story: Being frustrated with the fact that everyone's photos seem to look so much more crisp than mine (before I realized that it's all photoshop CS2 that does it all) I thought, "perhaps it's the camera that adds the crispness. So, seeing the 5D with its, I don't know, 12 MegaPixel, I figured, "hey, I'll simply slip my card in the camera and put my lens on and snap a few shots." Click...click...click..."Okay I'm done... OH CRAP!"
I look around, left and right feeling intensly scared and stupid at the same time. My friend walks up and I tell him what happened and he stands back and laughs...yes, I very Murray thing to do.
"Stay here!" I ran and got some store clerk and tell her what happened hoping that she wasn't thinking that I'm trying to steal a nice lens from the store. As it turns out, someone has done this before, so she ended up laughing at me as well. She was busy, so she got ANOTHER guy who ALSO laughed at me (I was laughing at this point too) and he said that I made his day...

THE END...

..actually, he got out a screw, unscrewed the lock thingy and took my lens off. "WHEW!!!!" All is well...
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Canon EOS 30D
1/15 second
ISO 400
35 mm