In a message dated 3/1/98 10:10:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Another good reason to carry a second camera body. > >Two years ago I dropped my trusty Nikon F2A onto pavement >at Kingman AZ. Mashed the prism and lightmeter but good. >Replacement prizm with meter very hard to find. > >My brother, a geologist dropped a Russian Zenit SLR off a >cliff in Norway. Needless to say he didn't bother to retrieve >it after a 400 ft flight. > >Any other dramatic camera demises out there ?. > Did not drop it, but two years ago had a video camera mounted on a tripod on the highway bridge over the Santa Fe mainline at the west end of the yards at Winslow, Az so that I could tape a few of the trains I was shooting when a strong wind gust blew the thing over and smashed the video camera on the pavement. When I picked it up and checked it out, it sounded like it was crushing ice inside. It was not repairable.
Warren Calloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raleigh, NC -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved
