On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> 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.
Ouch indeed. cheers, frank, who's dropped or lost his fair share of equipment over the years -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
