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The day started good.-2.jpg)
Zipping along...-3.jpg)
One pause to air-down the tires.-4.jpg)
On the trail we go.-5.jpg)
My wife had to come get us with the good old Chevy.-6.jpg)
Still camped out for the weekend.-8.jpg)
Some guys were climbing the big boulders.-9.jpg)
Joshua tree is peaceful this time of year.-11.jpg)
This is some kind of Indian burial place from the early 1900's and my wife and step-son peeping through-10.jpg)
Another angle of the Indian burial.-16.jpg)
Who is going to get food from inside the pumpkin?-15.jpg)
I will fight you for it.-13.jpg)
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Hi Pentaxian friends.
Last weekend, we decided to go camping in Joshua Tree national Park, and go four-wheeling on the nearby trails. I brought my K-7 along with us, hoping to get good pictures of Joshua Tree and of the Jeep performing. It was incredibly dusty and the K-7 really took a beating. At times, the camera looked more like is was brown on account of all the dust on it. I had to clean it with a wet rag several times. I dropped it once on the Jeep's floor when we drove over a boulder. Not once did I need to clean the sensor. Not one piece of dust got it the camera and the camera is still working perfectly. That's pretty impressive. I did take some great shots in Joshua Tree and of the Jeep, as posted above.
The sad part, is that the K-7 outlasted the Jeep :(
We broke the rear differential in trying to crawl over a big rock, obviously too big for the Jeep. I had to tow the Jeep behind my Chevy Silverado all weekend... in shame. I didn't want to ruin an otherwise good weekend of camping so we stayed at the campground anyway.
So as it is right now, it's 1 to 0 for the K-7. The good news is that the K-7 is one tough camera. The bad news is that my Jeep is broken and it will cost about the same price as a K-7 with a good lens to fix the Jeep. Goodbye LBA for a while.
Thank you for reading,
Yvon Bourque
Last weekend, we decided to go camping in Joshua Tree national Park, and go four-wheeling on the nearby trails. I brought my K-7 along with us, hoping to get good pictures of Joshua Tree and of the Jeep performing. It was incredibly dusty and the K-7 really took a beating. At times, the camera looked more like is was brown on account of all the dust on it. I had to clean it with a wet rag several times. I dropped it once on the Jeep's floor when we drove over a boulder. Not once did I need to clean the sensor. Not one piece of dust got it the camera and the camera is still working perfectly. That's pretty impressive. I did take some great shots in Joshua Tree and of the Jeep, as posted above.
The sad part, is that the K-7 outlasted the Jeep :(
We broke the rear differential in trying to crawl over a big rock, obviously too big for the Jeep. I had to tow the Jeep behind my Chevy Silverado all weekend... in shame. I didn't want to ruin an otherwise good weekend of camping so we stayed at the campground anyway.
So as it is right now, it's 1 to 0 for the K-7. The good news is that the K-7 is one tough camera. The bad news is that my Jeep is broken and it will cost about the same price as a K-7 with a good lens to fix the Jeep. Goodbye LBA for a while.
Thank you for reading,
Yvon Bourque
4 comments:
Very sorry to hear about your Jeep. I hope you get it fixed as I know you love your Jeep. Next time when you have a dusty K-7, it may be a interesting idea to use another k-something to shoot a portrait of K-7 in the working field.
I actually had a brand new K-x that I just bought last week. I didn't want to get it in the same situation as I was afraid it would get damaged. I should have brought my K20D as well.
If I were Ned or Pentax staff, I will send you a free copy of the Red K-x so that you can have product shots on a red k-x mounted on a tripod next to your red Jeep. I prefer the product shot with no cleaning for dust and dirt to show how the K-x and the Jeep work in your camping trip. I hope Ned reads this comment. That would be awesome.
Hin Man,
That would be great indeed, but I don't think Pentax will send me a red K-x for product shots with the red camera and Jeep. It would certainly be an honor but I think it will be in my dreams only. Thank you for such comments, I take that as a great compliment.
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