I always enjoyed reading his posts and his adventure with the 70-210 zoom repair was just a wonderful thing to read for so many reasons. My deepest condolences.
Grant H wrote: >I am sad to announce the death of PDML member Powell Hargrave, who was my >brother. Powell was struck down by lung cancer on October 10, less then a >week after the cancer had been diagnosed. He had been suffering from what he >thought was a pesky pneumonia for a couple of months, happily he was not in >pain in his last days. > >Powell bought his first Pentax in the early '60s and subsequently studied >photography in California and then as a member of the Royal Canadian Air >Force. He quit the RCAF to go to the University of British Colombia and >worked as a wedding photographer to make money on the side as well as being >a staff photographer for the student paper. > >He taught me the basics of photography and I ended up with his Pentax S1a >back in the '70s. I have since always had at least one Pentax, except for a >short period a couple of years ago when I thought mistakenly that a digital >could do it all and sold my K1000. When I realised the digital camera I >could afford couldn't do all I wanted, Powell sent me off to eBay to get a >decent Pentax film camera, and encouraged me in my subsequent Pentax >collecting fever. > >He maintained his interest in photography throughout his life even though he >seldom earned his living directly from it. I noticed his last contributions >to the PDML were at the beginning of October, a couple of days before his >health failed. > >He was a wonderfully "jack of all trades" but with the twist of being >"master of several". The explanation of how he fixed his Pentax F 70-210 >lens is a good example. See his site; >http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/ > >Powell worked at the Nanaimo BC art gallery for the last 18 years, a tribute >publish earlier this year; >http://www.mala.bc.ca/~nag/news.htm > >Go out and take a picture in his memory... or take your camera apart - that >is what he would have done. > >Grant Hargrave >(Spotmatic, SP500, KX, KM, K1000, MX and all the M-series (including 2 MF Es >with SMC Pentax AF 35-70/2.8 >lenses), MZ-50, P3... Powell was a bad influence!) > > > > > -- Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. --Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
