Oh and not quite on topic, when I graduated I argued with my mother that we shouldn't use the local Chemist to develop the films, but send them to the mail order folks who did my slides because they were special and would be of better quality.
Guess what - lost in the post. 35 years on she still moans at me for that. On 22 Apr 2011, at 18:55, Peter Jordan wrote: > > I still wince when I think of what I did. > > Perched on a rock, about 20 feet above a Scottish burn taking long exposures > of the flowing water. LX + FA 24mm f/2.0 on the tripod, F28mm f/2.8 in hand. > About to change the lens, nudged the tripod and, in slow motion, all toppled > waterwards. In my attempt to rescue the ensemble, I only managed to throw the > other lens after it as well. > > After crying a little, and looking at the semi submerged mess, I waded in the > burn and rescued everything. > > Of course nothing worked. I took it all home and put everything on a radiator > for a couple of days in desperation, more than anything else and amazingly > after a thorough drying out, complete functionality was restored to every > last piece of kit. > > Peter > -- > 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. -- 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.
