At a time that will play on blooper reels for years to come, a 90 mph field was smeared directly into a $ 24,000 camera lens during a Major League Baseball game between the Miami Marlins and St Louis Cardinals.
Cardinals second-year outfielder Tyler O’Neill, who is beating an average of .125 this season, has received a change from Marlins pitcher Sandy Alcantara. O’Neill hit a foul ball that sailed directly over the home plate and crashed directly into the batting angle camera.
Fortunately, the camera itself survived unscathed. However, the same cannot be said of the Fujinon UA18x7.6BERD broadcast zoom lens and the Fujinon WCV-L85 0.8x wide-angle converter (props for DP Review for identification), the front element of which has been shattered into a thousand pieces.
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“I think Tyler O’Neill owes us, how much do you think it costs, Holly – maybe $ 50, $ 60?” said Marlins play-by-play Paul Severino. “Yeah, $ 50, $ 60, no – if you add a couple of zeros to that … hundreds if not at least a thousand I guess, right?” replied color commentator Todd Hollandsworth.
In reality, the damage amounts to $ 1,799 (around £ 1,309 / AU $ 2,355) for the destroyed wide-angle converter, although if it had nailed the lens itself it would have been a lot heavier $ 22,495 (£ 16,368 / AU $ £ 29,449) bill. .
In the background, an unidentified player or referee can be heard beating O’Neill for his beautiful foul ball. “Of all the fucking places, Tyler. All the places you could get dirty out of bounds.”
It was definitely a hit in a million. But it’s a reminder to anyone who goes out into sports with an expensive Canon EOS-1D X Mark III, Nikon D6, or Sony A9 II – you don’t just have to capture the action, you also need to protect your kit from it!
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