{"id":1318,"date":"2011-03-13T22:06:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T03:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2011-11-10T01:19:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T06:19:50","slug":"help-im-in-hawaii-and-my-lens-quit-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Help! I&#8217;m in Hawaii and My Lens Quit Working!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Palm_Sunset_lens_quit_II16D_j4b1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1330\" title=\"Palm Tree at Sunset, Haiti\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Palm_Sunset_lens_quit_II16D_j4b1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not a good thing to have your lens refuse to work when you are on the trip of a lifetime. It was a pretty desperate phone call from a good friend who was vacationing in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>I went through all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/lenses\/lens_quits\/lens_quits.html\">usual things to do<\/a> that will usually bring a lens back to life. He tried them all and none of them worked.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Before he called me, he tried to find a camera store that could rent him a lens, but in his remote location, no one had what he needed.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for my friend, I was able to find two lens rental companies that could get a lens in his hands the next day. But that&#8217;s not the whole story. There are good reasons other than emergency equipment failure to know a good rental company. You can read all about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/equip\/rent\/rent.html\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not a good thing to have your lens refuse to work when you are on the trip of a lifetime. It was a pretty desperate phone call from a good friend who was vacationing in Hawaii. I went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=1318\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-using-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}