It's funny how I remembered an incident that banged me up, only causing cosmetic damage to the camera, and until now had forgotten....
A few weeks after I bought my K20, I was driving to work for a mandatory work on Saturday day. I saw a redtail hawk in a tree, pulled over, and in a hurry, put the K20 on the bigma and the bigma on my monopod. I got a few shots of the hawk and the monopod collapsed a bit. I lifted the monopod up so I could reach the lower segment to adjust it, and K20 and bigma disconnected from the monopod and landed on the asphalt below. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157615629173367/ I sent the K20 in for repair, got it back and it had some minor quirky problem. When I sent it back, it took them so long, they eventually just sent me a completely new K20. The only apparent damage to the bigma was that the zoom is now a bit stiff. This isn't entirely a bad thing, because it now stays were I set it. A little over a year later, I was pulling my camera bag out of the trunk, and the camera section wasn't zippered, launching the K20 to the pavement. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157624073414869/ When I got it back, just in time for burning man, I neglected to check what format the photos were saved in. It had been set back to the factory default of JPEG, so my nighttime shots with the K20 were useless. Fortunately, I mostly shot with the K-x at night. On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote: >> 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. > > I learnt two lessons that day. Despite the mishap, I did buy a strap - I > also acquired something else he had and I didn't - insurance. > > I've also taken the strap off before putting a camera on to a tripod, > something I feel I should not do in future reading the above! > > Malcolm > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
