Saturday, August 6, 2005, 1:02:56 PM, Tom wrote:
>>> Anyone else have a fall story and good news after.??
The first one is somewhat old, when I was just beginning, a strap tore
and a Praktica with a 500/8 1.5Kg USSR mirror lens landed on rocks at
my feet. The lens was unscathed, it was a monster of a lens, while the
lovely Praktica lost its metering (otherwise worked fine). I bought my
first Pentax, the K2DMD after that :)
Second was more funny, I was shooting in a church and while changing
lenses, an old and again 1.5Kg heavy 180mm/2.8 Sonnar somehow fell down from
my hands onto hard stonetiled floor, in a moment of complete silence.
Everybody turned heads to me :-) I was afraid that I had broken the
floor! Of course, the lens was again almost unscathed (just required a
little hammering of the lens mount back to shape <g>), and continues
to work flawlessly to this day. I bought a 70-210/3.5 after that ;)
so far, nothing more (pats on wood) :)
Good light!
fra
