[LRFlex] Re: Now it's getting personal!

OK,OK, GUY'S,

I can best ALL of you.

About 10 years ago, I was doing a roof inspection on a high-rise apartment 
building in Cincinnati, Ohio and standing much too close to the edge of the 
roof 
than I should have been. Anyway, I was shooting job pics with an R3Mot, with 
winder and a 35mm f/2 Summicron and the strap was NOT around my neck. A strong 
gust of wind came up (24 stories in the air), and I moved back from the roof 
edge, (Laws of self preservation et al.), anyway, the neckstrap snagged on a 
rooftop antenna and the camera launched out into the wild blue yonder. 

It fell at the rate of one, or more obscenities per floor. I watched it fall, 
till it hit the hillside below, which was covered with dense shrubbery! I 
thought OK, I'll just go down and get it. NYET! It bounced off of some 
shrubbery, 
launched back out into thin air AND went down, over a cliff into I believe, 
The Ohio River, never to be seen again. 

I think that I was more PO'd at the loss of the film than the camera at that 
moment. I had earlier thought about using an Olympus Stylus Zoom (35~70, 
w/date function). Well, to make a long story short, I went back down to my car 
and 
did get the Olympus out to reshoot the inspection. 

The Roofing Contractor that I was with said "I sure hope that wasn't an 
expensive camera, it sure looked like it though". I replied, "You have no idea".

Art Tafil

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