[Leica] More Adventures at Cutlass Court

[Don Dory]

That is an amazing portrait.  I am glad you don't have any eye orbit damage
as losing an eye would be not such a good outcome.  Heart issues can
usually be figured out for many years.  While you are in down time take a
look at the current Lens Rental Blog on flange to sensor measurements.
They found that they had out of spec on cameras with heavy lenses when
dropped went out of spec.  The effect was slight with some comments that
the images were a little soft on one side etc.

All the best.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 1:38 PM Howard Cummer via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Last Saturday morning son-in-law Ian and myself went to check on the
> eaglet at Cutlass Court.
>
> Here is my usual rig - the Z7 with the 200 - 500 VR zoom with the 1.4
> Extender on my Manfrotto tripod
>
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> Ian was there with the D500 and the 300mm f4.0 Pf.
>
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> While setting up I started to feel faint, for about 15 seconds, and then I
> blacked out,
> and fell crashing into the tripod with the camera attached. Ian called 911
> and the ambulance
> arrived in a few minutes. They checked for broken bones, etc and sat me up
> to try and walk
> me out to the ambulance as the stair case was too narrow for the big
> Gurney.
> I blacked out again and the fire department was called.  The station is
> just down the hill from Cutlass Court
> so the fire crew arrived quickly. They used a clam shell stretcher to get
> me to the ambulance and
> then I was whisked to the Health Centre to be triaged by the Doctor on
> Call. The discussion was
> whether a helicopter was available. But all three medi-vac ‘copters were
> in the air so I was
> assigned to a water ambulance and driven to Thieves Bay (where we whale
> watch) for pick up.
> They took me to Swartz Bay where another ambulance was waiting to take me
> to Saanich
> Peninsula (SaanPen) Hospital. I was overnight in emergency with a Holter
> on and released
> the next afternoon. Stayed in Victoria to have a 48 hour Holter test and
> came back to
> Pender yesterday.
>
> Here’s what I looked like at the worst point of the recovery:
>
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> I get Holter results this afternoon from my GP and have a tele-consult
> with my cardiologist on
> Wednesday. Universal Health Care works pretty well in such a medical
> crisis. Direct cost to me: zero.
>
> Going to see the eaglet tomorrow with an island photo friend who is also a
> Doctor.
> There will be pictures, of course.
>
> Howard
>
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> PS: The only damage to the camera rig was a cracked Lens hood. When I woke
> up on the deck
> the first thing I asked Ian was “Is the camera okay?” I have my
> priorities!!
>
>
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Don
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