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Every now and then, when I'm re-organizing my cameras and such, I pull out the manuals, just to 'refresh the little gray cells'....The manual from my 70-200 f/2.8 VR G IF-ED, had this passage:
"Turn off immediately in the event of a malfunction. Should you notice smoke, or an unusual smell coming from the camera or lens, remove the battery immediately, taking care to avoid burns. Continued operation could result in injury. After removing or disconnecting the power source, take the equipment to a Nikon authorized service representative for inspection."
Ya know, I guaran-damn-tee you that if I smell smoke coming from a camera, I'm getting the hell outta the way!
Maybe I need to read all my manuals again. I don't remember anything like that on any of mine. It sounds as bad to me as the warning on a bottle of sleeping pills that they cause sleepiness and not to operate machinery while taking????
Every now and then, when I'm re-organizing my cameras and such, I pull out the manuals, just to 'refresh the little gray cells'....The manual from my 70-200 f/2.8 VR G IF-ED, had this passage:
"Turn off immediately in the event of a malfunction. Should you notice smoke, or an unusual smell coming from the camera or lens, remove the battery immediately, taking care to avoid burns. Continued operation could result in injury. After removing or disconnecting the power source, take the equipment to a Nikon authorized service representative for inspection."
Ya know, I guaran-damn-tee you that if I smell smoke coming from a camera, I'm getting the hell outta the way!
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hehehe.
You really are nutty, aren't ya?
That's great.
That reminds me of some site I saw a while back on 'Engrish'.
It was strange instructions that had been interpreted FROM one language into English and, well, something got lost in translation.
I'm with you though, if I see smoke I certainly am not just gonna keep shooting!
I believe if a battery in a camera like mine was defective it could literally explode. It's a very large NiCad. It weighs more than a lot of smaller digital cameras by itself. I'm not sure if Li batteries are capable of exploding or not. It's the lens smoking that makes me laugh. That must be a powerful anti shake mechanism to cause a fire in a lens???
If this battery starts smoking I'm popping my lens off and tossing the body in one smooth motion. This is the big boy that I'm about ready to stop packing around. I shot it on top of an external hard drive for a size comparison.
Last edited by Nomadicus; 08-27-2008 at 03:03 PM..
Maybe I need to read all my manuals again. I don't remember anything like that on any of mine. It sounds as bad to me as the warning on a bottle of sleeping pills that they cause sleepiness and not to operate machinery while taking????
I kid you not, that is in that lens' manual....had me shaking my head in disbelief! The part that really had me wondering was when they mentioned smoke coming from the camera OR the LENS. Now I know those lenses have those nice little motors but for one to SMOKE?? Whoa!
Or how about "taking a sleeping pill and a laxative in the same night".
Someone came off with that one on Shear Genius last week, and I lost it laughing..
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