Insurance on Camera Gear

[jcr_au]

After reading of some problems experienced by Eggs on his Gammon Ranges report I thought, gees I better do something about insurance on my gear, it must be starting to add up a bit now

I then read a post about insurances on Ausphotography which suggested getting them covered by home & contents, as it was generally good cover at a reasonable cost

I now have cover through our home & contents policy

Unfortunately its cost me $17,000 for the first years cover

My wife is in the office today so asked her to arrange the cover.

She put the girl from RACV on so I could detail the gear.

Judy was listening and realized I have bought a bit more gear than she realized (a Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 zoom and Sony Alpha550 body in the past month, etc; etc: ) She then visited the local Toyota, Holden & Mitsubishi dealers - within about a week we will have a Holden Cruze cdx apparently

John R

[north-north-west]

There's a moral there somewhere, but I'm too busy sniggering to point it out . . .

[Drifting]

Man, I hope that's supposed to read $170.........

[north-north-west]

No, I think it's the price of his wife's new car . . . *snigger*

It's things like this that make so grateful not to be married.

[tasadam]

I currently have all the expensive bits of camera gear covered as specified items in our home & contents insurance. And good thing too, due to a very unfortunate incident last year that would have cost me a LOT.

[jcr_au]

No, I think it's the price of his wife's new car . . . *snigger*

It's things like this that make so grateful not to be married.

Yes the actual insurance is about $200, the $17000 is the change over price of the car. Thing is, she drives the patrol more than the (current) Astra, and we changed that over in April.


31st Anniversary that's got to be glass (lens) doesn't it?

[Drifting]

LOL- that's more like it!

We listed everything seperately on our policy, and when we got the renewal this year, it had the following on it:

Canon 24-105/4 L $130
Canon 100-400L IS $230

They left a "0" off- that would have made for messy litigation.

[jcr_au]

LOL- that's more like it!

Canon 24-105/4 L $130
Canon 100-400L IS $230

They left a "0" off- that would have made for messy litigation.

Oh, I don't know. That sounds about right for canon

I use Sony