minus one, plus two

[FrankS]

Stupid, stupid, stupid! I was loading stuff into my car at work, and I placed my Canonet QL1.9 on the car roof because my hands were full and I had to unlock the door. While driving home, almost home, I heard the camera slide on the roof, bump into a roof rack, and saw it tumble on the road in the rear view mirror. I turned around and picked up the 3 pieces. The rear film door had come off and the pressure plate had come off. Other than that, the camera was not in too bad shape. The filter ring was dented, and there was a dent in the bottom corner of the camera, but the shutter still works, lens focusses, and the viewfinder and rangefinder are fine. Tough camera. Is there anyone in the Toronto GTA that wants the pieces? I've done this once before years ago, with a Gossen light meter. That's the bad news.

The good news is that I'm waiting for 2 Rollei cameras to arrive: a Rolleiflex MX type 4 with 75mm f3.5 Tessar from Craigslist for $80, and a Rollei AFM P+S from E-bay for under $200.

The TLR should arrive tomorrow and if it checks out, it will go on the Quebec Gaspe' trip next week, with a couple of F3's, and my dad. (Cuba is out because of health insurance for my father.)

 

[Trius]

Frank -- bummer! But I do hope the Rolleis arrive in time for the Gaspe trip. I need to return there. Enjoy le fromage!

 

[FrankS]

Thanks Earl. Did you get my PM about the Rollei P+S coming to your address because of a US-only E-bay seller?

 

[wolves3012]

Reminds me of my brother, except in his case it was his wallet, with credit cards and he didn't realise for a couple of hundred miles - at the ferry port as he was leaving for a holiday! His young son pointed out where he'd left it too...

 

[35mmdelux]

I place my MP & Noctilux on the car seat before loading my briefcase and other gears into my car. Once in Costa Rica I set my Nikon F3HP (evil slr) on a short wall only to have it fall crushing the vf housing flat like a tortilla.

 

[35mmdelux]

Reminds me of my brother, except in his case it was his wallet, with credit cards and he didn't realise for a couple of hundred miles - at the ferry port as he was leaving for a holiday! His young son pointed out where he'd left it too...

OMG, LOL. Kids are wonderful.

 

[Trius]

Frank -- maybe I did. 😀

Sent you an email about it ... I'm in Windsor right now.

 

[cjm]

and I placed my Canonet QL1.9 on the car roof

After this I could see what was coming. 🙁

Sorry to hear that. I had a QL19 for a while and those things are VERY robust.

 

[newspaperguy]

Ah yes, the roof trick...

Did that once with an Olympus IS... you know,
the weird looking one...

...actually, in pieces it's rather attractive.

 

[btgc]

That roof thing is a bad habbit, I must agree. I once put on roof my bag with wallet and phone and started to drive. Just some bypassers waving from opposite side of street saved me from hassle replacing all ID's and licenses.

Let's look on it from bright side - probably destiny wanted to take away one of your cameras to check your faith and instead of probably Nikon RF (or other expensive piece of gear you own) it had Canonet. Go figure.

 

[WDPictures]

Too bad about the results of your camera/road bounce test. Perhaps you should have started a thread here to get input prior to such a test. If you hadn't said the other cameras were already on the way I might have questioned sabotage as reason to get new gear. Hate to hear about a dead camera but it makes for a good story.

I mostly see to-go food containers on car roofs as they drive by. A close second are nearly full drink cups and usually they are hanging on for their life to the edge of a roof rack, straw fluttering in the wind...