Nice shots. And thanks for the weatherproofing test. Now I can be more adventurous:-). Paul On Jul 27, 2008, at 1:29 AM, Charles Robinson wrote:
> This past week I participated in a 300-mile, 5-day biking event. As > my compact Fuji F30 is out on loan to my daughter, the only camera I > had available to take with me was the K10D with the 16-50 attached. > > Yeah, it was a little large, but I didn't have much I needed to pack > with on the bike anyways (we had support trucks hauling our camping > gear for us). > > One day about 3 days into the trip, I settled into the tent for a > nap. After a while it started to rain, so I reached out and zipped > down the rain fly on the outside of the tent. Me and the wife waited > out the 10-minute shower and then the sun poked out again. > > After a while, I got up and looked around inside the tent. No > camera. Hmm... now where the heck did I put it? > > I unzipped the tent and looked out onto the grass. There was the K10D > sitting in the grass, glistening with raindrops. I was appalled, and > then I giggled and told the wife "good thing it's weatherproof, > huh?". She didn't think it was funny at all! Party pooper. > > -Charles > > Oh - almost forgot - for anyone who cares to see my pictures from the > trip: > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2008/tram > > These sure came out looking nicer than what I shot with the compact > F30 the year before. I think I made the right "camera choice". Plus, > being able to walk around with it over my shoulder WHILE IT WAS > RAINING was kind of fun. It did rain quite a bit on the trip. :-( > > -- > Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
