What do you call a guy that flooded his new camera? Shattered!! L
It is now about two months after my fateful dive at Anton's. That is the dive that that flooded my new 7D....caused my computer to crash....lost me the opportunity to compete at the shootout.
I guess everyone wants to know how I am coping and what the fallout is, has been, and what next?
I can record I am plotting a revenge comeback. That will take some time. To start I tried repairing the camera. After all it looked fine, only a bit of water entered. Sadly after spending another R250 i got the bad news, the 7D is destined to be a museum piece or paper weight. The good news was that the compact disc was fine and I even managed to retrieve the morning dive data. No winners there sadly.
Let's talk computers, any luck there. First I need to tell of the "disruption" that hit us even as we prepared for the Shootout. Yes dear Sue dropped the Mac PC that we normally use for our shoots and we had to take it in for repairs, hence the reason we took the new 4 Core 27" Imac. Now I had the ultimate weapon anyway! So in fact we had four disasters, at least. I also dived without turning on my air, so what can i say, stayed at home, Never!
I took the Imac back and waited. Did we lose the hard disc as well? Was it still under warranty? Fortunately our luck changed. Only the graphics card had gone and everything else was OK! Wow at least there is a change of luck her. I could at least recover all photos that I was unable to enter as well as all our shots from the Monday. I thought I had some reasonable efforts, but no winners. In any please be the judge yourself. I think my conservation shot might again have been a contender.
Underwater photography remains an elusive art. You need to know the reefs, dive well, know your equipment, have some luck and have a reliable computer. So what are the lessons? I guess first, do not change your dive procedures. Keep to your regime. Secondly make backups. Thirdly id the bad luck runs then it runs. Lastly I guess it all asks hard questions about yourself and the future. Well the good news is I have a new camera and we all wait with bated breath. Next year is far away. I cannot wait.
