Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: NigelC on September 04, 2010, 11:34:54 am
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Whilst on holiday in the Cape Verde islands off I was relieved by masked robbers, wielding knives and sticks, of my Lowe Pro bag with almost new Canon 5D2 body and 100L IS macro, and rather older 17-40 and 70-200f4L IS, plus assorted cards, batteries, remote release etc. I suspect these items as we speak are being touted to photographers in Dakar, Senegal, but in case they end up on ebay, serial nos are 5D2: 1831111527, 17-40: 00579249, 100 macro: 2191533, 70-200: 254491
I expect insurance company will just replace like for like. There was a bit of an issue with the 5D2 body – after using a 5D for over 4 years and finding it as solid as a rock (and still commanded good price on ebay) I was somewhat irritated by the fact that the CF door on the mk2 kept lifting slightly as it stuck to the (sweaty – it was over 30C) ball of my thumb – perhaps a slight manufacturing variation? Also, why will (my ex) 100L macro not refocus from macro AF setting to distant object without a helping hand from the manual focusing ring – don’t recall this coming up in reviews – a fault perhaps? If I am able to top up insurance I would be inclined to replace 17-40 with 16-35II – I was increasingly using this with 70-200 instead of 24-105 and I think 16-35 would be better at bigger apertures, particularly in 24-35 range – I would seriously consider Nikon 14-24 with adaptor as don’t believe AF is important at these focal lengths but I wouldn’t be able to use ND filter – Zeiss 21/2.8 is fantastic but lot of money for just part of what I need. I will also keep a look out for reviews of new 70-300L as possible substitute for 70-200 plus 300 prime.
BTW if you are contemplating travelling to Boa Vista, CV my advice is don’t but won’t go into detail here as it’s way off topic.
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Sorry missed off "off West African Coast"
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You sound amazingly nonchalant about what must have been a terrifying event and a continuing great inconvenience (until the insurance comes through). Sorry it had to happen to you.
Eric