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
---- Begin Original Message ---- 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 - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . ---- End Original Message ---- Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/index.html http://brooks1952.tripod.com/myhorses Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
