A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day....Even on photim.com
Hello Everybody on Photim's forum share your pain You can read the comments by following the link http://www.photim.net/nci/discu.php3?code=20010323022512clover See you [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - 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 "nooo" 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 comfortBTW, 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. - 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 . _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - 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 .
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Hey, does anybody here speak French? :-) Tanya. - 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 .
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Clover, It took me a while, but I finally found an online translation site (my French is very basic). Please pass on my thanks to those who responded - I think I got the general idea! Take this as a warning to all though - never mix your passion with your kids!! (Unless you have somebody else there to look after the kids!) :-) Tanya. - 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 .
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Hi Tanya, Don't know if you'd appreciate any more posts on this (very painful, I'm sure) subject but here's my two cents: About four years' ago, I was a struggling architect (still am but the struggle gets a little easier now :-) and I'd managed to save up enough to buy a (new) Olympus OM4Ti. This was priced around $1100.00 (without customs and other duties) if I recall correctly. When I finally got it after a year, I was delighted- no, that's not the right word- overwhelmed would be closer, I think. Three weeks later, my cousin drops in, begs me to lend him my camera for a short business trip (2 days) to Australia. So I lend him the OM4Ti. Yeah, I know, bad move. Two days on, I learn he's been mugged- beaten up pretty badly and the camera is gone. That was it: I couldn't bear to see my collection of OM lenses anymore- I just locked up everything and didn't open that cupboard for a couple of years. That was also it for Olympus- I switched to Pentax as it seemed the closest in spirit to all I had admired in Olympus. What happened to the cousin? When he could speak through his wired jaw, he mumbled something about about fate and then hastily vanished. Get a card from him sometimes- no, he doesn't mention cameras anymore! Three years ago, I began saving again and got a (new) MZ5 and then slowly, a new series of Pentax mount lenses. I later picked up a PZ1p. Have to admit, the pain of losing that brand new camera was incredible. Still gives me a twinge sometimes. Might add that I'm from India- here you don't just go to a camera store; you first find a reliable importer, order, wait for months and then pay incredible duties (upto 75%) on the basic prices. Kinda makes you appreciate the camera a lot more when it finally arrives :-) All the best for the new camera. RK - 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 .
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 "nooo" 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 comfortBTW, 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. - 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 .
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Ah, what a day. Maybe it's time for Bill to tell the story (complete with pics) of the tragic incident involving his Pentax 67. And you thought *you* had it bad. :) chris - 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 .
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Sorry to hear about your tragedy. But your concern for your child was the correct response. It's unfortunate that you lost the camera, but you did the right thing. Perhaps you can figure out a way to generate a few extra dollars so that you can replace the camera and lens as soon as possible. You can still do some good work with your other camera. Perhaps some portraits of neighborhood children. Or you might inquire at local real-estate agencies to see if they have a need for house photos. I once made quite a bit of extra cash shooting the for-sale houses. Good luck. Paul --Original Message-- From: "Tanya Russell Mayer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 22, 2001 1:30:11 PM GMT 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 "nooo" 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 comfortBTW, 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. - 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 . - 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 .
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Tanya, Check your homeowner's insurance policy. Might be worth the effort. Collin From: Tanya Russell Mayer Subject: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 05:26:27 -0800 *** Data Processing Consultation, Inc. Providing Broad-Spectrum Business Solutions and Assistance http://www.iol21.com/dpconsult [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 .
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I sympathise Tanya it must hurt - but look on the bright side - the two irreplaceable babies are safe. One day you will replace the third. How's your insurance? Peter - 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 .
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Hi Tanya, You can buy another body, but not another baby! Sorry for your loss of beloved camera, but as many have said, insurance might cover the damage. What you did was the right choice I think. You can also think this is the chance for you to get yourself an LX...s Sincerely, Take Ueda, Osaka, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.tripod.co.jp/hayatama/photo/ - 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 .
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My goodness Tanya. I can't stop crying... I've banged mine hard on the kitchen counter once while holding it in my hand and I've had it roll off the car seat to the floor of the car while braking too hard, but nothing like this. I feel your pain. Comfort comes in the fact that you cared most about was most precious and the only tragedy was an inanimate object(s). It might do the rest of us some good if you could take some shots of the pieces you recovered. I'm quite curious what a PZ-1p/lens looks like after a 50 ft drop. OT: Possible wives-tale. My wife was telling me last weekend that one her girlfriend's aways back husband was a beef buyer and would travel the country to cattle auctions. The term "cancer-beef" apparently applied to cattle that had tumors and were otherwise "unprime". Apparently, according to the story, McDonalds was consistently the buyer of this kind of livestock and always bought it up quickly. Tom C. - Original Message - From: "Tanya Russell Mayer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Pentax Discussion List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:30 AM 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 "nooo" 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 comfortBTW, 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. - 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 . - This message
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:30:11 +1000, you wrote: However, I digress, and as such I must now revert back to the tragedy of today. Actually, multiple tragedies really, so here goes So sad. I once had a PZ1p and A* 200/4 Macro take a rolling dive off a park bench onto the concrete. But your loss is worse - my camera and lens were both insured and repairable. -- Happy Trails, Texdance http://members.fortunecity.com/texdance http://members1.clubphoto.com/john8202 - 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 .
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Sorry you lost your PZ-1p, Tanya, but at least you kept your boys safe. It's very easy to fall into mourning over days like that, and a certain amount of that is healthy, but I think it's much more important to take something positive away from it. Use it as a learning opportunity. I've said it here before, but it's worth repeating: I used to shoot eight-ball with a friend who, when I would express some disgust over blowing a shot, would always ask, "But did you learn?" It was half in jest, I know, but it's something I've carried with me for many years, because it can be applied to any mishap, mistake or other bad experience. So, Tanya, I have to ask: But did you learn? Doug - 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 .
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You repeating a probably slanderous statement without checking to see if it is true is very disappointing. This is especially true as it is COMPLETE OFF TOPIC! What does McDonald's purchases have to do with Pentax??? Do you have a grudge against the Corp? An angry stockholder who is forwarding your comments to The McDonald's Corp. - Original Message - From: "aimcompute" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 11:19 AM Subject: Re: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day My goodness Tanya. I can't stop crying... I've banged mine hard on the kitchen counter once while holding it in my hand and I've had it roll off the car seat to the floor of the car while braking too hard, but nothing like this. I feel your pain. Comfort comes in the fact that you cared most about was most precious and the only tragedy was an inanimate object(s). It might do the rest of us some good if you could take some shots of the pieces you recovered. I'm quite curious what a PZ-1p/lens looks like after a 50 ft drop. OT: Possible wives-tale. My wife was telling me last weekend that one her girlfriend's aways back husband was a beef buyer and would travel the country to cattle auctions. The term "cancer-beef" apparently applied to cattle that had tumors and were otherwise "unprime". Apparently, according to the story, McDonalds was consistently the buyer of this kind of livestock and always bought it up quickly. Tom C. - Original Message - From: "Tanya Russell Mayer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Pentax Discussion List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:30 AM 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 "nooo" 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 comfortBTW, I had only had the PZ-1p since Christmas,
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You make me laugh Cy! You hold stock? HAHAHA! :-) This is the kind of stuff that should be reserved for Friday! And your right... I consider McD's to be one of the 20th century plagues... right up there with Taco Bell. Even though sometimes on trips I'll stop at 8PM and get 6 cheeseburgers that'll keep me awake driving until 2AM. I'm sure it can't be good for me though. What's the board's opinion on this? :-) Tom C. - Original Message - From: "Cy Galley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 11:54 AM Subject: Re: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day You repeating a probably slanderous statement without checking to see if it is true is very disappointing. This is especially true as it is COMPLETE OFF TOPIC! What does McDonald's purchases have to do with Pentax??? Do you have a grudge against the Corp? An angry stockholder who is forwarding your comments to The McDonald's Corp. - Original Message - From: "aimcompute" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 11:19 AM Subject: Re: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day My goodness Tanya. I can't stop crying... I've banged mine hard on the kitchen counter once while holding it in my hand and I've had it roll off the car seat to the floor of the car while braking too hard, but nothing like this. I feel your pain. Comfort comes in the fact that you cared most about was most precious and the only tragedy was an inanimate object(s). It might do the rest of us some good if you could take some shots of the pieces you recovered. I'm quite curious what a PZ-1p/lens looks like after a 50 ft drop. OT: Possible wives-tale. My wife was telling me last weekend that one her girlfriend's aways back husband was a beef buyer and would travel the country to cattle auctions. The term "cancer-beef" apparently applied to cattle that had tumors and were otherwise "unprime". Apparently, according to the story, McDonalds was consistently the buyer of this kind of livestock and always bought it up quickly. Tom C. - Original Message - From: "Tanya Russell Mayer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Pentax Discussion List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:30 AM 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 "nooo" 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 b
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Paulo Ernest Wrote: "Look at the bright side, at least your children are safe. Cameras can be replaced eventually. Speaking of which, the MZS is scheduled for release in a few months." Yes, of course, my children are my main concern and they were both initially quite distraught at seeing my reaction to what had happened, I had to make a game out of it to stop them from crying and play "spot the debris", whereby they pointed out where all the bits and pieces were as I picked them up. They ended up having a grand 'ole time with a really nice little old lady who sat with them to make sure that THEY didn't fall down the cliff-face.! I am afraid the the MZ-S will be way out of my league in monetary terms, however, I am hoping that its release will drive the price of the PZ-1p down... Tiger Moses wrote: "Is the item covered under home owners insurance? Did you buy with a credit card that may havve a extended warrantry and disaster policy. Remember the old commercials where the kids sticks the dripping peanut butter and jelly sandwaich in the VCR slot? Since the thing is less than 6 months old, you may be able to make a claim, if you card has one of those, many platinum cards do! My Zx-5n fell of my tripod the first time I used th etripod becuase I didn't mount my quick release lock correctly! Landed on the lens, saved the camera, lucky me!" Unfortunately, no and no. I discovered last year when my purse was stolen out of my car containing a month of my husbands salary, that our home contents insurance only covers items when they are actually IN the home. I was sure that there was a clause that allowed for items to be covered while in the car and while travelling etc. but I was obviously wrong. In regards to the credit card thing, I paid cash for this one (gave me a better deal). Wanna know how much it cost me? au$1900! This is approximately US$850 and I see now that they are going on Ebay for like US$400! I could have bought two for the price of my new ONE! Unfortunately, now I am on "camera equipment rations" until our new house is built and cannot even afford the US$400 to buy a second-hand one, oh, well, i shall muddle along with my MZ-50. Paul Stenquist wrote: "Sorry to hear about your tragedy. But your concern for your child was the correct response. It's unfortunate that you lost the camera, but you did the right thing. Perhaps you can figure out a way to generate a few extra dollars so that you can replace the camera and lens as soon as possible. You can still do some good work with your other camera. Perhaps some portraits of neighborhood children. Or you might inquire at local real-estate agencies to see if they have a need for house photos. I once made quite a bit of extra cash shooting the for-sale houses. Good luck." Thankyou for your suggestions Paul. I was actually thinking of doing some sort of cheesy setup at our local markets and charging willing parents small amounts for some cute shots of the kids while shopping at the markets. I was thinking of maybe combining it with face painting and shooting their faces in all their technicolour. Gotta put a bit more thought into it yet though. I was also thinking of having my hubby wip up a few nice wooden frames and decorating them and then framing some local landscapes and still lifes that I have been doing of late. I don't think that I have enough knowledge/experience at this point to do the real estate agent thingy, but it is a really good suggestion. As I mentioned above, of course, my children were my main priority and I thank the universe that they were OK. Chris Brogden wrote: "Ah, what a day. Maybe it's time for Bill to tell the story (complete with pics) of the tragic incident involving his Pentax 67. And you thought *you* had it bad. :)" I would love to hear and see this story, even if only to console myself a little! Bill, are you listening? ;-) Collin Brendemuehl wrote: "Check your homeowner's insurance policy. Might be worth the effort." Thanks Chris, see above response, re: contents insurance policy. :-) Tanya. - 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 .
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Ok, so I refuse to enter into any type of debate about the quality of Mcdonalds beef!?! Besides, we always eat the chicken nuggets! hehe. However, to everyone else... Peter, I discussed my insurance in my previous post, unfortunately, it wasn't covered. However, my main priority of course always was and is my human babies, and luckily, they are just fine. Takehiko Ueda wrote "What you did was the right choice I think. You can also think this is the chance for you to get yourself an LX." Well, I do see that there is a rather intensive battle going on here between LX and non-LX users and these things do of course, happen for a reason, I may look into it, however, there is an LX on auction on ebay at the moment and with 4 days to go it has already hit the au$600 mark (out of my league) aimcompute wrote: "It might do the rest of us some good if you could take some shots of the pieces you recovered. I'm quite curious what a PZ-1p/lens looks like after a 50 ft drop." I will do my best to do this for you, however, I took it straight to the camera shop when it happened in a fruitless bid to somehow have it put back together, the guy simply looked at me and said "sorry, i stopped doing jigsaw puzzles in primary school" and laughed rather smuggly to himself as I had been gloating over my purchase to him for some time (he is a canon user). I left the parts there in my disgust. I will go back today and see what he has done with them. Fingers crossed that all will be present and accounted for. I actually had the urge to run home and get my MZ-50 and take a shot of all of the debris where it lay after the event, but it would have been impractical with my kids and it was getting dark etc so I just picked it all up and dropped it off to the camera guy. I might go back to day and see if I can at least take shot of the cliff face for you. John Mustarde wrote: "I once had a PZ1p and A* 200/4 Macro take a rolling dive off a park bench onto the concrete. But your loss is worse - my camera and lens were both insured and repairable." Yep, not insured or repairable, but as I said before, these things happen for a reason, and I am sure that there must be another opportunity of some description waiting for me out there - just gotta find it. Doug Brewer, thanks for your post about the 8-ball analogy. I learned Doug, boy did I learn! I think I will be buying a relly good, really stable tripod before I buy another expensive camera body, and my kids and camera's just aren't a good scenario to consider any more! But, yes, once again, at least my boys are safe :-) Sorry for the lengthy responses guys, I just wanted to make sure that I didn't miss anybody, I didn't anticipate on receiving so many responses when I posted this! - 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 .
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- Original Message - From: "Chris Brogden" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Pentax Discussion List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 22, 2001 9:54 AM Subject: Re: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day Ah, what a day. Maybe it's time for Bill to tell the story (complete with pics) of the tragic incident involving his Pentax 67. And you thought *you* had it bad. :) That was actually my Bronica ETRs. It fell a hell of a lot farther than 50 feet too. William Robb - 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 .
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- Original Message - From: "Tanya Russell Mayer" Subject: Re: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day Mcdonalds beef!?! Oxymoron Perhaps heavy on the Ox. HAR Wheatfield Willie - 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 .
Re: Subject: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day....Camera Insurance
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:13:38 -0800, you wrote: It's disturbing how fast that annual premium mounts up, though :-( I have an all-risk rider covering about ten thousand of my gear, at a rate of about $1.35 per $100 valuation. The policy paid a $1400 claim the first year I had it, so I am still in the black for awhile. -- Happy Trails, Texdance http://members.fortunecity.com/texdance http://members1.clubphoto.com/john8202 - 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 .
