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From: "Tanya & Russell Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: jeudi 22 mars 2001 14:30
Subject: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day....
> Hello all,
>
> I apologise for my tardiness in keeping up with all of your wonderful
> replies - all I can do is blame it on the fact that today was shopping day
> and I had to screaming kids begging me to take them to Macca's for "happy
> meals".
>
> However, I digress, and as such I must now revert back to the tragedy of
> today. Actually, multiple tragedies really, so here goes....
>
> So we went to M'Donalds - just me and my two toddlers. Had a nice lunch
and
> decided to go up to our local tourist lookout for a walk. Being a nice
day,
> naturally, I chose to take with me my trusty third baby (my other two are
> human), my PZ-1P. <Warning, the following may be distressing for some
> readers, and especially the author> We got to the top and it was almost
> sunset, so I thought, hey, why don't I set up my tripod and take some
> selfportraits of myself and my boys with the sunset behind us. Hmmm, so
far
> so good. Tripod set up, cable release set up, smile, snap! smile, snap! a
> couple of nice pics for sure. Of course after two photos, my almost three
> year old (my oldest), decided to make a bolt for it categorically stating
> that he wanted to "play in park, no more pottos mum". With that, he
bolted
> down the path of the lookout. Me being a normal, concerned mum, tried to
> grab him for fear of him falling over the 50ft cliff on the other side of
> the walkway, whilst trying to hold my other baby (aged 16 months) and
> untangle myself from my cable release at the same time. I am almost too
> upset to even type this, but, alas, I shall continue, if not to console
> myself, then to at least make somebody out there feel some morsel of pity
> for me! The following moments were like one of those slow motion scenes
out
> of a movie where all the sound gets blurred and somebody yells out
> "nooooooo" whilst trying fruitlessly to prevent a tragedy from happening.
> Well, today, I was that somebody and my tragedy did happen. Lets just say
> that my Pz-1p, complete with sigma 28-80 macro zoom, pentax cable release,
> achiever 630af flash and (crappy) vanguard tripod, all went a tumbling
> straight over the cliff face. About 10 seconds and 50ft later, I opened
up
> my eyes (after all of the crashing and smashing sounds had stopped) to
find
> debris scattered down the cliff face at a huge variety of intervals. I am
> so devastated, that camera was indeed my baby. I can't buy anything else
> this year (except maybe something pretty cheap and nasty), as we are
> building a house and I start Uni next year which will be expensive, so
now,
> I am stuck with nothing but an MZ-50. (Despite my previous claims that I
> have a Pt-30, I was actually exagerrating a little in the assumption that
I
> would win an auction that I was bidding for it on. In a wonderful climax
to
> my day, I arrived home to find that I had been outbidded, and the auction
> had ended while I was trying to climb down the cliff and rescue my little
> black pieces of metal and glass that were once a very expensive camera.)!
I
> am in a severe state of shock and mourning, I sure hope some of you guys
> have some miraculous words of comfort....BTW, I had only had the PZ-1p
since
> Christmas, after I saved for two months to buy the thing! So, can anybody
> hazard a guess at which item (apart from the cable release which didn't
have
> a scratch on it) survived this travesty? The crappy Achiever Flash, of
> course! I must have done something really bad in a past life to deserve
> such torture......I will never again enjoy a "happy" meal......
> :-(
> Tanya.
>
>
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