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Re: New Camera, Recommendations?

Post by BrokenolMarine » Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:11 pm

ESquared wrote:Very nice. What lens?
Nikon dx af-s nikkor 18-55
One of the two lenses that came with my first nikon dsl, the d40 I used for years.
It was a good camera, until it took a swim on a fly fishing trip in the Smokey Mountains.
I bought a d3100 to replace that body, it lasted about five years. Lenses still going. :D
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Re: New Camera, Recommendations?

Post by BrokenolMarine » Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:28 pm

I learned a few things about Mountain Streams on that fly fishing trip.
- Even in May, the water is Ice Cold.
- Water flowing Down Stream has Power.
- Water coming around the rocks, has super power.
- Sections can be deceptively deep.
- Rocks in the stream are covered in snot.
- Snot covered rocks are as slippery as ice covered rocks.
- D40s can't scuba dive.
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Tina was upstream and I wanted to get some good shots of her casting.
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I took a few shots, and they looked good, but then I moved farther out into the flow to get a better angle. Stepping from behind the large bolder, I was hit with the power of the flow. :o Wow, that's tough. I lost my balance and started to fall back and let the camera drop high on my chest. (I had shortened the strap.) ;) I caught myself with my wading staff, I was now leaning back about 30 degrees, but the water was pushing me a little sideways. :? Large boulder behind me, I pushed with my staff and fell against it. Whew... safe. :lol:

Oh, the water pressure was pushing me hard against the boulder... and water was running UP my waders, over the top and DOWN inside. :shock: Wait, that water is COLD. Oh no, I'm sliding sideways, the boulder is covered in mountain snot. :roll: In slow motion, I slide off the side of the boulder and there was NOTHING I could do about it. In the water I went, the pressure taking me down. I spun putting my feet downstream but keeping them UP as long as I saw a rocky bottom. Once I saw clear sand, I put my feet down and stood up.

I waded to shore, knowing that my legs were filled with icewater to the knees. :evil: luckily I had a full change of clothes and a towel in the truck. I was never in danger as my wading vest inflated when I got wet. Tina never saw me go in, as she was facing upstream. I blew my whistle when I got to shore and she came and helped me change and laughed at me.

Camera was dead. Even after it dried. The SD card was good, the lens was still good after it dried for several days.
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Re: Re: New Camera, Recommendations?

Post by Mags » Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:16 pm

That is good cold story. Good of you to make it out. Too bad for the camera. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed the tale.
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Post by BrokenolMarine » Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:24 pm

This was supposed to go on the end of page three of my other post... it would make more sense there, and wouldn't be a cold story. Lol.
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Re: New Camera, Recommendations?

Post by BrokenolMarine » Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:26 pm

http://henryrifleforums.com/viewtopic.p ... 693#p68693

Mods, can you move that post here? :shock:
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Re: Re: New Camera, Recommendations?

Post by RetiredSeabee » Thu Aug 23, 2018 3:09 pm

Beautiful neck of the woods you are fishing in. I tried to see if I can move these to the other thread...... Apparently not in my pay grade. Maybe JEBar has the horsepower to merge threads. I will shoot him a message..
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Re: Re: New Camera, Recommendations?

Post by dave77 » Thu Aug 23, 2018 3:45 pm

I thought it was your new camera that got dunked until I read your post in the original thread.
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Re: New Camera, Recommendations?

Post by BrokenolMarine » Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:05 pm

Yah... the first one, the d40, replaced with the d3100, now have the d700....
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Re: Re: New Camera, Recommendations?

Post by JEBar » Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:14 pm

RetiredSeabee wrote:Beautiful neck of the woods you are fishing in. I tried to see if I can move these to the other thread...... Apparently not in my pay grade. Maybe JEBar has the horsepower to merge threads. I will shoot him a message..
happy to help, threads merged .... per the way the forum software is written, the individual post are placed in the order they were written .... nice camera, really nice pictures
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