Several riots, in which I saved my cameras by running like hell; a cave in West Virginia, when I was too inexperienced to realize how much protection was going to be needed, resulting in a trashed Rolleicord;
caught during a gas station holdup, forcing me to surrender a Minolta Autocord (no precautions possible); the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, 1965, when I took along plastic bags in case of rain (it rained); a farm workers march 300 miles from Calexico to Sacramento a few years later (didn't rain); when in potentially sensitive situations or bad neighborhoods, concealing my camera under a jacket with a quick release Schwalberg neck strap that eventually got ruined saving my Leica M4 from being snatched; and a canoe trip for which I borrowed someone else's camera ;-) but I got paid back for that some time later when my son borrowed an Olympus RF from me and dunked it in Wisconsin lake during a canoe outing :-(
Allen Zak
On Apr 20, 2008, at 9:38 AM, ERoustom wrote:
Personally, I wouldn't take any camera with me in a canoe.Well maybe that's a topic worth discussing.
What are some of the more dangerous (for the camera) situations you've taken your Rolleis into, and what precautions did you take?
E.
