On Jul 24, 2009, at 21:44 , William Robb wrote:
I think I'm afraid of losing/breaking/dismantling/dropping-in-river
the Limiteds, even though I'm always very careful with my gear.
Anybody else suffer from this affliction? Is there any known cure?
After you've put a scratch in a good lens, you won't worry about it
again.
Today I did something I "never" do, and had my camera sitting on the
passenger seat of the truck. I had to stop hard for a moron and
pitched the K7 with the 31 attached onto the floor.
It still seems to work.
I put my loose camera on the floor of the car in a pocket created in a
cushion of canvas bags I use at the grocery store. Stopping should not
hurt it any, but a broadside hit from another car would certainly move
it around.
I used to keep it on the passenger seat (bucket), but sorta hung it
from the strap over the head restraint so it could not go anywhere.
But one of the dogs now insists on sitting in that seat, ergo the
floor location.
However!
I got out of my car this evening at the dog park, and slung my K20D
with grip and DA*60-250 attached over my shoulder and across my chest
so I could carry my coffee and walk the dogs on leash to the gate. The
coffee was still on top of the car. Just as I let the camera strap
drop to my shoulder, I felt a complete loss of weight. Without
looking, I reached around behind me and grabbed the falling camera
body by the grip indentation with three fingers, preventing the whole
lot from crashing to the ground lens first.
The strap had backed itself out of the cinch and retaining loop and
let go. Fancy that!
Took myself a few minutes think about that, and to to re-attach the
side that let go, then re-did the other side as well.
Gonna have to sew those looped ends together somehow, and change them
when they show fraying from wear.
Joseph McAllister
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There is no off position to the genius switch.
Genius can, however, be observed as insanity.
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