Well, that was a disaster! - Photography with the Nikon D750.

I am sorry to see that your 750 died in such a way. I will say that they are tanks when it comes to falls though. My daughter and I were hiking this year and she tripped going downhill and landed on her camera, it snapped the lens hood off but all was fine, it didn't even break the lens hood. I was sure that her teeth, ribs, wrist and camera were all broken, but thankfully she only had some major bruising, minor whiplash and her camera and lens came through unscathed.
I hope that insurance came through for you, we carry insurance on all of our gear but insurance companies are notoriously bad at paying out.

I dropped my Nikon D810 with a 70-200 f2.8 attached to the front. The body and lens were both destroyed. That was a sad day.
Keep up the nice work.

D7000 with 200-500mm mounted on gimbal and monopod. Walking back to the car, mounting screw “unthreaded “ . On course I’m strolling on concrete at this point, and ….it falls . I think it hit the lens hood first, bounced and then the camera . Outcome , lens mount sheared off, camera body actually separated In two places….miraculously the lens, not the hood, survived. I was told I had the most expressionless/blank look as I gazed at the carnage. I feel your pain .

It's alright. Shit happens. My mother died watching me fail - and I've been wanting to shoot myself ever since. Well, still here. Lonely as ever but who gives a shit.

Put it in a bucket of rice for a few hours and then try.

Oh dear!! All that weather sealing that Nikon brags about didn't amount to much then. That must have been gut wrenching.

Shit happens. Maybe it was time for a new camera anyhow. I am still a fan of the DSLRs but if I would have to start new, I would go for Mirrorless.

Oh crap,, RIP Nikon 750

I bought a used D750 for ~$500 three months ago. It seems like this camera body has been through a few accidents. I noticed a couple of water drops under the LCD display plastic, a scratch on the built-in flash, and I had to repair a broken rheostat (a mechanical sensor that checks the position of the aperture ring on lenses). Now I have a great camera. Currently, I'm using manual lenses, but I plan to purchase a couple of modern autofocus prime or zoom lenses in the future. Hopefully, when war in my country comes to an end...

My D750 with 18-35 G mounted on a tripod fall on a small river with the tripod (I think I positioned it wrong on the bank..)... I fished it out in a couple of seconds.... turned everything off, removed the card, battery, lens... dried it and left it to dry for 3 days with silica gel... it's still with me and has taken another 6000 photos since then , the lens is also safe and sound as I had the lens hood (which was lost) and the ND filter (which broke).... I was very lucky!

I know everyone raves about the Arca plate mounting, most of the cameras dumped over the years from tripods that I have observed in videos have been with the arca mount, Manfrotto had a bad head that after a while part of the spring that holds the camera in started having issues on that particular arca head. Maybe I'm just old school, or I was just to poor at the time that I babied my camera as I couldn't afford to get another one right away so I was a single body person till 2022 when I finally went mirrorless and kept my Canon 90D as a backup. Started out with Manfrotto tripod in 2008, it uses the RC-2 mount with the PL200 plates. Never had an issue in all those years of using that design. Maybe I'm just lucky I have never broken any of my gear over the last 15 years. (knock on wood) . Sorry for your accident, I can imagine the horror that went through your mind at the time, you got a great replacement though!

My tripod fell in a stream with my Canon 6D attached. Wouldn't work so I sent it back to Canon. They said it was beyond repairing and returned it. I put it on my desk as a paper weight and a reminded to be more careful. Two years later, just for fun I inserted a battery. It instantly came to life and worked perfectly. I used for a couple of years.

As a d750 user this hurts to watch 💔 sorry for your loss 🙏

I used to have a Nikon compact; while it was relatively new I managed to drop it onto tarmac which it survived with no ill effects.
Its second encounter with tarmac however was fatal.
I had left it on the roof of my car while I changed out of my walking boots and drove off with it still on the roof.
The camera stayed on the roof until I got to a main road,but as my speed picked up, there was a ‘clunk’ from the back of the car and I looked in the mirror to see my camera cartwheeling down the road, shedding bits of itself as it did.
I never did find the memory card!

Thank God for insurance

A thermos bottle leaked in the bag between job and how. Destroyed minty D3. Mounted a friends collectable Leica slr and it fell to cement floor just like you describe but water. I now shake every time to be sure it is secure.

Replace with Z6 or 7.

haha i killed my d7000 a few years ago, on the rocks at whitley bay trying to get a photo of the lighthouse , in to a rock pool about 2ft deep, lovely salty water ooops :)

I've never had an accident like that, and only accident I had was dropping a DX lens on the floor from about a foot. Accidentally knocked it off the couch.
I'd like to share a very useful piece of advice, and that is to use wrist straps in conjunction with your tripod. I wrap the wrist strap around the tripod and hook it up to a carabiner on the tripod to avoid my gear somehow falling off of the tripod. This has saved my gear once when I like you, forgot to tighten the plate all the way. Long story short, my camera and lens ended up just hanging from the tripod and not falling into water. I hope someone will find this hack useful.

Oh Courtney‼️But always look on the bright side - this is your chance to go M4/3🥰

Oh dear. I was going to share a story but on reflection, in 50+ years of photography I've never dropped a camera. Sorry, that probably doesn't help eh? 😁

I always have a neck strap attached to my camera. If it falls forward from the tripod, the strap will save it from falling into water 👍

Yep, I did the exact same thing. A brand new OM-1 slipped off of the tripod head and bounced across a tile floor a few times. Fortunately, the L bracket and the lens hood saved all but the camera flip out display, which was destroyed yet easily replaced by the service center. Insurance saved the day. I couldn't say the same for a Lumix G9 and 100-400 lens that had to be written off when someone accidentally pushed it off of a bench. Really enjoying your upbeat, high quality videos. Keep up the good work!

I was taking photographs in a very dark Church. I mounted the camera on the tripod thinking it was in the Arca Swiss clamp. Let go & it descended towards the marble floor. On its descent the camera strap caught in the tripod & I grabbed it just before it reached the floor. So lucky!

I've only had it happen to me once and thankfully the camera didn't have far to fall onto the grass, but it's made me really paranoid about making sure it's really secure before I let go of the camera now.

Been there, done that. In my case, it consisted of knocking over my own tripod while setting up for a cityscape image from a freeway overpass, sending everything tumbling to the pavement, lens first. The body, fortunately, survived, but the 16-50mm was a total loss. (And, no, I didn’t have insurance.). BTW, that same tripod now rests at the bottom of Puget Sound after another mishap, this one, fortunately, when there wasn’t anything attached to it.

I came close to this, wading into the the ocean at Dry Tortugas National park, I wanted a nice shot of just the water, no beach, so I set my tripod up in the water, afixed my nikon D810 with a sigma ART 24 f1.4 and as soon as I let go it tipped forward off the tripod, fell and I caught it about a foot before it entered the water. Almost lost about 3k on that little dip. I was so relieved I caught it!

A year or so before in Banff, canada my 14-24 2.8 fell out and onto the ground during a lens swap, messing up the zoom ring. It was very sticky but still zoomed so I limped it through that trip and fixed it when I got home. Seems to be working fine now, luckily.

Drops happen, but I hope it never happens to me again lol

I’m one of the clumsiest landscape photographers in the world believe me and yes the exact same thing has happened to me too, rushing to set up for a cracking sunrise in Liverpool, I failed to check that the l bracket was securely fasted onto the ball head, the Nikon D800 and 24-70 went for a dive onto concrete and that was that.
I now put the camera strap around my head and put the camera on the tripod and do not take it from around my neck until I know the camera is secure… lesson expensively learned by me 😢

I've done the same exact thing, I'm so sorry for your loss! That is how I ended up with my D750 😪

Right of passage.
Welcome to the idiot club.

Only thing I've broken has been a 18-50mm kit lens for a Nikon F55 35mm camera about 15-years ago. Stupidly I was trying to change lenses while walking. Lesson learnt and haven't damaged anything since.

Oh! Once I dropped my 24-120mm. F4 accidentally on floor while opening my camera bag. But surprisingly it has been working but for some scratches on it. We have to take these things as part of our photographic journey.

Don’t take this wrong, but your humor is so cute! You make me laugh out loud. 😂 I am truly sorry about your camera and lens, but at least you didn’t fall in the river and get hurt. Great video!! Thx for sharing!

A few years ago I was on the Isle of Skye wanting to take photos of the fairy pools and my Olympus OM-D EM-1 MK2 flew into one of these pools. But fortunately the camera was not alone, because the owner and user flew with them. I have to say the water is crystal clear and I was able to launder my money on the occasion. I noticed that British pound notes take a long time to dry. Best regards from Switzerland PS: The Olympus continued to work, as did the lens.

Oof. Sorry about your baby.
I love my D750 - even if the fron left rubber (the bit with the FX badge) fell off it. It's such a a great balance of features, form (size/weight), performance and price. I think Nikon did really well with the compromises on that body.

My incrdible bouncding D7000.... bounced from about 1.5m above the ground onto a cement floor, skidded/bounced/rolled a couple of metres, from what I can tell landed on the front end of the lens. The lens was wearing a filter and that got very dented but the rest of the kit seemed to come out unscathed.
It was only some years later when my partner borrowed the D7000 and she dropped it on a hotel roof that the poor ol' thing needed to visit the service centre.
But hey, at least the rubber stayed put.

That's one thing I realluy dislike about Arca plates/clamps. I find them convenient in so many other ways, but I'm always concermed about having them done up correctly.
I think the Manfrotto RC2 system is a lot more positive - it can stiol go wrong, but I don't think it has for me. With the Arca system I've had a number of near misses and a couple of drops. So much so that I tend to keep my neck strap on when setting up a camera on an Arca mount.

Love your ditty at the end of the video.🙂

Keep shooting?

This happens all the time to me when outside 😅

I share your pain. I managed to total a D800 and an iPhone during a storm on Mam Tor in the Peak District! It happens…

Hi Courtney, your photographic works are beautiful. I've also been using the D750 for a short time. Can you tell me how did you set the display showing the grid, the light meter and the other data? Thank you

Pulled onto the highway with my D500 and 18-140 on the roof of the car. It was in pieces after bouncing down the shoulder of the highway. Had to replace camera and lens.

I'm curious what insurance do you use? I was thinking of getting some to cover my gear

My sympathies. It happens in the line of work. No worries, since its insured.

you take such brilliant shots as most would have just went up close on the water and never looked beyond, taking in the full scene is something only a few would notice or even attempt. About the dipping of the camera, I had a similar experience a few years ago, short version - Scotland, loch side brilliant shot on the making, just had to wade in, a bit........ I waded and found a hole, i was not looking for a hole but found one, I went in, uncle tom cobbly and all, my girlfriend at the time said it was surreal, as I went under, an arm came out of the water like a Hollywood movie, it did not contain the sword of Excalibur in my grubby mitt, but did have my D60, the camera stayed aloft before I came up. uninsured, I took the hit. and as an add on, stripping down to the birthday suit by the road side is not recommended, as it attracted some very weird people who were driving by and a selection of gnats well known for frequenting the area. love your stuff. it's good to see someone showing what they have done and not telling you what to buy.

I literally cringed when you said "... bounced a few times..." I lost my D810, 16-36mm ... fell over 2m along a granite cliff into a 0.75m deep "pond" landing on the D810 and bending the magnesium alloy subframe.

....... Ciao Victoria.
Questi accessori per me non sono molto sicuri e affidabili !!!!
Il migliore attacco è sempre quello della fotocamera !!!!

Sorry about your D750, it must've have been a right shock for you when it happened. I'll share this with you to make you feel better. I was shooting in Northern Ireland last year. I travelled up from Wexford in the South of Ireland, camped out, and tackled Slieve Donard, part of my quest to climb the four highest mountains in Ireland. I reached the top of Donard at 7:30am, did a bit of shooting then made my way back. I then spotted a potential comp which meant approaching the river. I've know idea how, but I lost my footing and fell into that river and travelled at least 100 yards or more before i came to a stop. The good thing was, my backpack, still on me, with all my camera equipment in it, actually stopped me from cracking my head on the initial backwards fall and miraculously, all my gear was ok. What was more concerning, was that the area was completely deserted and it took me a while to get up the bank and out, then go back up and retrieve my tripod which was damaged. I considered myself a very lucky man that I wasn't seriously injured and that all my gear survived as well. Hail Lowepro packs, there good for breaking a fall and protecting your gear 😀🤣

When I first brought my new Hasselblad to the beach to get some tidepool shots, I replaced the 80mm lens with the 120mm lens. As I tilted the tripod down to frame the shot, I discovered that the lens hadn't fully engaged. It promptly fell onto a large rock.

Lucky for me these things are built like tanks! The only thing that suffered was a filter that took the hit. Phew, that was a close one!

Hi Courtney, I’m sat here without a camera waiting for insurance company to settle up. Exactly the same thing happened to me last week in Glencoe. The Nikon Z6ii is currently at the bottom of a waterfall. To dangerous to attempt a rescue.
Again , like you the twist knob on arca clamp to Zelda Bracket failed. Not tight enough obviously. I do have moderate arthritis in my hands.
I think I may switch to a clamp version of Arca rather than the twist knob. Chin up.

I have 2 750 bodies, and share your love for them. I had a similar accident with a bad tripod mount, only on concrete. Destroyed the focus section of a Tamron 70-300 lens, only a scratch to the body, and threw up in my mouth. The rebuild by Tamron was affordable, and excellent. But I DID change the mounting system and tripod. I check and double check every time I put my camera on my tripod now.