A FedEx delivery guy was caught on camera this week throwing a package containing a $1,500 Canon camera lens to a front door instead of walking a few extra steps to put it down gently. The whole thing can be seen in the 3-minute video above.
My name is Marc Weisberg, and I'm a luxury home photographer based in Southern California. This is an article about why I'll never use FedEx again to ship my camera gear to a workshop, as well as what you need to know before ever shipping camera gear. It's the story of how FedEx utterly screwed up my delivery and cost me over $1,000 to get new gear and re-printing of all my workshop materials.
As camera film companies continue to shutter flagging film lines in order to focus on their most profitable wares, it's not uncommon for analog photographers to build up personal stockpiles of film and store them in a freezer (or two) to use in the future.
It is unusual, however, for one photographer to pay the price of a small house for a stockpile that requires a walk-in freezer to store -- and that's exactly what one recently did.