Never sell that camera.
--- David Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Luckely it was just as we took off from the
> Tug boat we were living on doing a survey
> of the Queen Charlotte Islands off the BC coast.It
> fell into a foot of water,he landed and i used a
> small
> hook the pilot had in the front to grab onto the
> neck strap.I let it dry in the sun all day at my
> station then wiped off the salt residue.I replaced
> the
> UV filter on our next day off and all was fine.
> I also left it in a cab when i visited Sweden many
> years ago
> but he returned to my hotel and left it with the
> front
> desk.I saw a SP500 sitting there and thought some
> idiot lost
> his camera,looked into my bag and that idiot was
> me.The cab driver
> left it with my description so it was not a problem
> getting
> it from the clerk
> Dave
> Dave
>
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon, 27 May 2002 07:57:16 EDT
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Most Durable Pentax Body
>
>
> In a message dated 5/27/2002 6:45:39 AM Central
> Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (regarding
> 31-year-old SP500):
>
>
> > It has fallen from a
> > helicopter and fell into the Pacific ocean.
>
> Sounds like an interesing story -- how did you
> retrieve it?
>
> ERNR
> My photographs hang on the virtual walls at
> http://members.aol.com/ernreed
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