Larry, I see a trip to Pentax in your camera's future. :-( Concrete is no good for cameras and lenses. Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > Driving to work this morning I saw a couple of crows divebombing a > hawk perched in a tree. By the time I got there, the crows were gone, > bu the hawk was still there. I pulled over, put the 1.4x on the bigma, > put them on the K20 and put it all on the monopod. > > After a few minutes of shooting one of the sections of the monopod > slipped. I lifted it up to lengthen it again and the quick release > manfrotto ball head released, dropping my camera, bigma and TC five > feet to concrete. > > The damage to my two week old camera seems to mostly be to the plastic > housing, though the mode dial doesn't seem to work. No matter where I > set it, it works like it's in M. > > The hood for the bigma is cracked. The zoom is now a bit tighter. On > the bright side it seems to have solved the zoom creep problem. > > I hope the rest of my day improves. > > -- > The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post > the wrong answer. > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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.
