Baseball destroys $12,000 Sony lens
Saturday 1 July 2023, 22:55 by Elja Trum | 2,451 views | 1 commentThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Sports photography can be a dangerous business. Photographer Jim Rassol was particularly unlucky when a baseball destroyed his $12,000 Sony lens during a game.
That was a very expensive foul ball! pic.twitter.com/cj22RFY789
- Bally Sports Florida & Bally Sports Sun (@BallySportsFL) June 24, 2023
The ball flew straight into the front lens of his Sony FE 400mm f/2.8 GM OSS lens. It did not survive.
Jim had not insured his equipment. Fortunately, other photographers decided to help him buy a new lens through a GoFundMe campaign.
Sony also heard about the incident and the campaign to help Jim. They decided to carry out the repair for the amount raised so far. They also sent him a replacement 400mm straight away to use until his own lens had been repaired.
By then, $7,363 had already been raised through the GoFundMe campaign. So I do not know whether Sony still has to contribute much towards the repair. In any case, it is good that things have worked out well for Jim Rassol.
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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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1 comment
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Paul wrote on Tuesday 4 July 2023 at 14:47 | replyGood for the man that such an action got underway, but it's rather foolish not to insure such equipment (for professional use). 12000 $ or € is not pocket change.
Translated from Dutch.
But it is being repaired, hopefully he'll take out insurance now
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