Bad luck. Good shot. I remember the good old days. When people had LXs the stories went something like this:
I was on top of the Matterhorn and saw an eagle coming towards me with a lamb in its talons, so I reached for the LX. Unfortunately, because of the ice, it slipped from my fingers and bounced down the mountain into a waterfall. From there it was carried to the ocean where it became engulfed in the largest oil spill the world has ever known. So I fished it out and put it in a bucket of water on the roof of my car. Carelessly, when I set off I had forgotten about the LX in the bucket and it was only after I had driven several miles when, swerving to avoid a column of tanks, the LX fell off the roof onto the concrete road surface. Only 10 of the tanks drove directly over it, so I suppose I was a bit lucky there, but unfortunately one of them pushed it so far into the ground that it set off a small thermonuclear landmine which had been left there since the Cold War. But the blast was entirely upward, so after the LX had gone through the jets of a passing fighter plane it fell to the ground and, to my amazement, landed in my picnic basket and squashed a grape. Anyway, I checked it over and there were a couple of marks on the viewfinder, but otherwise it was ok. The film was a bit buckled though, probably from the heat of the landmine. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of DagT > Sent: 17 April 2008 16:44 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Catastrophy and good news... > > What a week. > > Two days ago I was in a hurry, so I pulled my bag out of the car too > fast to notice that it was uside down. So my K10D with > DA*16-50 didn´t > just fall out, it bounced along the sidewalk. After the fall > the zoom > was almost broken in two and the viewfinder was crushed. So > I sent a > mail to Pentax and told them about it. I also checked the insurance > and found that only the K10D had a proper insurance. > > Yesterday I visited Pentax and they had found a K20D with a new > DA*16-50 for me. Great guys! > > Yesterday I also got a mail from the Nordic Light festival > http://www.nle.no > which I´m going to visit in the beginning of May. They had > accepted > one of my photos for an exhibition with the theme "Truth" and they > wanted print it in 40x40cm. Some have seen another version of > it, but > the accepted version is here: http://foto.no/bilder/images/v_78122.jpg > > Today I got the message that there is no hope for the broken camera > and lens.... > > So I´m a little happy because K20D seems to be a nice camera > and the it > ´s great to have a picture at the exhibition, but my wallet > is not as > happy. Luckily, I have a patient wife .-) > > DagT > -- > 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.
