Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ---Chandos Michael Brown excitedly said: > Hurrah! Hurrah! I've just been invited to crew on the Schooner Leopard in > the annual Annapolis-Norfolk schooner race later this week. Close > quarters, wide-angle, and a freezer full of fast film as of my birthday > last month. I am toooo excited.<<<< Hey good on you Chandos, it should be a great shoot, possibly a tad damp. ;-) However, in the event you and camera take a major soaker salt water and all, accidentally drop the camera overboard and claim insurance and get a new one. I realize that's a kind of crooked deal I'm initiating, but I had a leica and Hassleblad get a major salt water drowning on a schooner off Halifax and neither, although sent for extreme cleaning, never worked properly after. And a real old-time salt water guy told me, "Hell you shoulda thrown them over board and got new! Things like that are never worth a damn after all the salt gits in the innards unless every nut, bolt, screw and whatever them cameras have inside taken apart, washed, dried and re-assembled." They were and still never worked properly. So Chandos for what it's worth make sure the gear is well insured, as it's always possible you might accidentally drop a camera over board which has nothing to do with my wicked ways. It's OK we'll believe you in the event it happens. ;-) ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html