Gianfranco, It is too much bad luck to just one man. Fátima is another place you van go. But if you live in Italy...:) I hope that's the first time and the last such things happend to you.
Manuel -----Mensagem original----- De: Gianfranco Irlanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: segunda-feira, 29 de Agosto de 2005 15:18 Para: [email protected] Assunto: Back home, bad news... Hi everybody, As I mentioned in my last message, I left home to the Aeolian Islands on the 13th. I'm not the kind of guy who believes much in luck, but that number's fame should have a bit of meaning after all... I had five bodies with me, *ist D, LX, Fuji GS645, Yashica T5 and Ricoh GR1. The last one was the first to go: it stopped working probably after a couple of days. I had it mostly for real B&W shots, and used it a bit before noticing that it was not exactly working properly - it sounded like it was but in fact the shutter did not open... After a week we went to a tour of other two islands, Panarea and Stromboli. I had filled 1,5 GB with the D when suddenly it freezed. I thought: "well, it happened before, I just have to leave the battery out for few hours and the camera comes back to life". I did not... :-( I tried several times during the week but with no avail. Luckily it's still under warranty. Then the LX, my only SLR left, started behaving strangely. Sometimes the aperture remained stopped down after the shot was taken. Then the mirror started to remain up. I managed to make it work even under those circumstances but you can guess how sad I was. The mirror was probably a battery thing, but the lever that stops down the aperture is a bit loose and resting a bit higher than normal. Another one that will go to Florence for repair. This one is my older and more used LX; I guess I should have sent it in for a CLA a long time ago. When I came back home I found both my "new" computers not working. My brother said he had taken the newer one to the shop for a check and there it worked, or so I'm told. Now it is going there againg... Grrrrrrrrr :-( Maybe a trip to Lourdes is in order... Ciao, Gianfranco _ ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
