18 Mar
2010
18 Mar
'10
1:44 p.m.
Joe, I can feel your pain. During Comet West's apparition, I had a near-death experience when a borrowed Nikon F1 fell off my 8" Newtonain, where I was using it for piggy-back shots. It and it's lens suffered severe damage, falling on the rocks and snow at Little Mountain. Fortunately, the owner didn't kill me (I was just a teen-ager and he was a professional photographer).