For quite a while now I've been meaning to go downtown and take photos of my city. However, often when I've had free time it's either been nasty-cloudy or too darn cold. Today was different, though.
Today was sunny and fairly warm--for February. We get a nasty wind coming down from Siberia here, but apart from occasional gusts, it was pretty nice. After lunch I picked up my trusty Pentax P30t and got set to head out the door. At the last minute I decided that it might be nice to take my longer lens along. After getting that out, I thought that it would be ok to take my flash out of my bag and move my extra rolls of film from the main camera compartment to the flash pocket.
Upon opening my bag, horror of horrors, I saw that MY PRIMARY LENS WAS BROKEN!!! Somewhere along my travels this January, the body of the lens separated from the part that attaches to the camera. I have no idea how to get it back together (I tried everything that looked possible, apart from super-glue). I'll have to see if one of my Chinese collegues can help me find a repair shop. Or this may just be the push I need to go digital.
Either way, yuck.
I went downtown for photos anyway, sans my main lens. Having to use a long lens (70mm-210mm) is awfully trying when you're used to shooting between 28mm and 70mm, normally leaning toward the wide side. I think I got some decent shots, but I could have had more with my other lens.
Weep with me.
Posted by at February 14, 2004 11:51 AMyuck. that is sad. being new at the whole addictive world of photography, i don't have the experience to know anything about cameras, let alone the pain of loss of cameras, but i have seen similar distress from joy's blog in the past...hope it all works out.
Posted by: apelles at February 15, 2004 4:06 AM