> Not my camera but my only such story. Back in late 1979, I went to > central > London with a friend one weekend to take some photos. He had two > expensive > Nikon cameras, bag, lenses, rolls of film - I took my entire camera > collection which consisted of an MX, 50mm lens and one roll of film in > the > camera, in a plastic carrier bag. > > At one point we took pictures from London Bridge and my friend > commented > that I should buy a neck strap, in case I dropped the camera. A few > minutes > later on the other side of the bridge, one of the cameras he had on a > neck > strap made a faint metallic noise as the clip snapped, and a few > moments > later, one very expensive Nikon camera made a small splash on the > surface of > the River Thames never to be seen again, followed immediately by an > interesting gurgling noise from my friend. > > Malcolm
interesting story! Back at about that same time I went into Central London with a friend. He too had a whole bunch of Nikons and lenses & stuuf, and I too had just an MX and 1 lens and a flash. We were setting up to take some pictures in Parliament Sq and I was putting my MX onto a tripod when I noticed it lurch forward and fall to the pavement. It survived the fall and has retained the ding in the pentaprism cover, but no other ill effects. But that's what taught me always to use a strap. B -- 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.
