I'll never forget the time I was summiting Everest in the first no
oxygen solo nude boxing gloves and roller skates ascent. I reached
around for trusty OM1 when...Damn! the strap broke. As I saw the
camera skittling over the ice towards an enormous cornice I knew I
had to make a choice: Play it safe ane let the camera go, or SAVE MY
OLY!
Naturally, I opted to save my Om-1, and dove after it, unfortunately
breaking the cornice and sending the camera and I both hurtling
towards the large shelf 1500 feet below. As luck would have it, the
strap slowed the camera down and I was able to grab it just in time
to snap a few action shots of snow falling off the cornice above
before the camera and I hit the ledge.
Naturally, I was killed on impact. Dead as a doornail. But the same
OM-1continues to take pictures to this day.
BBB
Wanna hear the one about the time it took a bullet while covering the
South Central LA riots?
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:18:16 +0000, Giles wrote:
>
>Someone on the list once recounted how their OM-4Ti had fallen from a moving
>truck,
> had been picked up, then proceeded to work perfectly for the
>following 10 years or so.
>
>I think that qualifies.
>
>Perhaps we could embellish the tale slightly before release with some bouncing
>into
>the path of an oncoming 18 wheeler, or two trailer road train on the Nullabor,
>being
>run over by said vehicle and then having to be prised out of the asphalt
>(Macadam)
>with a crow bar;-)
-
B.B. Bean - Have horn, will travel
bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Peach Orchard, MO
http://www.beancotton.com/bbbean.shtml
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