The thought occured to me that the LX and an old K-lens would have been OK, but... .-)
DagT Den 17. april. 2008 kl. 19.06 skrev Bob W: > Bad luck. Good shot. > > I remember the good old days. When people had LXs the stories went > something like this: > > I was on top of the Matterhorn and saw an eagle coming towards me with > a lamb in its talons, so I reached for the LX. Unfortunately, because > of the ice, it slipped from my fingers and bounced down the mountain > into a waterfall. From there it was carried to the ocean where it > became engulfed in the largest oil spill the world has ever known. So > I fished it out and put it in a bucket of water on the roof of my car. > Carelessly, when I set off I had forgotten about the LX in the bucket > and it was only after I had driven several miles when, swerving to > avoid a column of tanks, the LX fell off the roof onto the concrete > road surface. Only 10 of the tanks drove directly over it, so I > suppose I was a bit lucky there, but unfortunately one of them pushed > it so far into the ground that it set off a small thermonuclear > landmine which had been left there since the Cold War. But the blast > was entirely upward, so after the LX had gone through the jets of a > passing fighter plane it fell to the ground and, to my amazement, > landed in my picnic basket and squashed a grape. > > Anyway, I checked it over and there were a couple of marks on the > viewfinder, but otherwise it was ok. The film was a bit buckled > though, probably from the heat of the landmine. > > Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of DagT >> Sent: 17 April 2008 16:44 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Catastrophy and good news... >> >> What a week. >> >> Two days ago I was in a hurry, so I pulled my bag out of the car too > >> fast to notice that it was uside down. So my K10D with >> DA*16-50 didn´t >> just fall out, it bounced along the sidewalk. After the fall >> the zoom >> was almost broken in two and the viewfinder was crushed. So >> I sent a >> mail to Pentax and told them about it. I also checked the insurance > >> and found that only the K10D had a proper insurance. >> >> Yesterday I visited Pentax and they had found a K20D with a new >> DA*16-50 for me. Great guys! >> >> Yesterday I also got a mail from the Nordic Light festival >> http://www.nle.no >> which I´m going to visit in the beginning of May. They had >> accepted >> one of my photos for an exhibition with the theme "Truth" and they >> wanted print it in 40x40cm. Some have seen another version of >> it, but >> the accepted version is here: > http://foto.no/bilder/images/v_78122.jpg >> >> Today I got the message that there is no hope for the broken camera > >> and lens.... >> >> So I´m a little happy because K20D seems to be a nice camera >> and the it >> ´s great to have a picture at the exhibition, but my wallet >> is not as >> happy. Luckily, I have a patient wife .-) >> >> DagT >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly >> above and follow the directions. >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
