Well jeez, I hope both the camera and the hip get fixed. (Sounds like a bad day all around).
Bob Blakely wrote: > Well, I drove 80 miles out to the desert Saturday to attend a combination > star party and barbeque - starbeque. I took the 1000mm f/8 mounted on an > equatorial mount and my K10D. There's lots of nice folks in the Orange > County Astronomer's Association, and we all had a great time eating and > yakking about the heavens, telescopes, CCD's, mounts, weather, etc - and > eating of great food. > > As evening approached, clouds came in. By the time it was dark, the North > Star was nowhere to be seen as it remained behind the clouds for most of the > night. About 11:30 pm a hole opened up to the north and we finally got to > line up our scopes on Polaris. Shortly after, it socked in again. Most of > the sky was clouded over most of the time and holes were to short for > photography. Shucks. Well, I gave up at about 3:30 am and started to break > down the equipment to head home. I'll be out many times again and when I > finely get to see black sky, I'll PESO a photo. > > While I was breaking down the site, I lost my balance when I got a sharp > pain in my left hip. (It's not healing now form the motorcycle mishap and > the doctors are sending me from specialist to specialist.) Anyway, I > instinctively stretched my arm out toward my table to catch myself and > knocked the K10D off and onto the concrete setup pad. A K10D hitting > concrete is a very *sickening* sound. The viewfinder glass was smashed and > the electronics is acting goofy (technical engineering term for what the > f***). This baby's going back to Pentax for repair and refurbishment. I'll > let you know what they charge when I get it back. > > I have a backup K10D, so I'm not out of digital business. > > Regards, > Bob Blakely > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, > and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." > - Robert Frost > > > > > -- All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
