Originally posted by MRRiley Damn Mel... That SUCKS!
And, not that this evers happens at a good time but, better at the beginning of the trip before you've loaded all of your priceless photos onto the stolen laptop than toward the end when they are all on the hard drive and you've re-used all of your SD cards several times. I hope you've gotten with your insurance company and they didnt hassle you about replacing necessities. Good to hear they didn't get the K7 or the new lenses. Real shame about your Taks though. I know those were your babies and you have to be hurting real bad. Tough on the kids too. 9 is too young to have that happen to you.
Where were you when this happened?
Mike
This was in New Jersey, in a gated locked parking lot of a Marriott hotel of all places. We were between trips to the car. I did have some photos loaded on the laptop but fortuntately I didn't clear off my cards yet. And yes my babies. And my Helios too. I use that lens a LOT. I soooo loved that lens.
Its frustrating. I keep reviewing in my mind what was in that camera bag and while no one thing was very expensive, it all adds up, all the little things like adaptor rings and such. $20 here, another there. In that one bag I had two other bags organized into "kits", one for macro work and one for long telephoto (my tak 200 and teleconverters and such). Even stuff like card readers, added into the whole pot of stuff. My battery chargers were in there too, the gorilla pod I just got at blackwater from dadipentak, the crumpler bag from last year's gathering, sheesh, just the bags alone was probably a good $170 retail.
And then the clothes. It was pretty much the bulk of my summer wardrobe, which isn't much but it was all there was. It's really disturbing to think that someone was rifling through my personals then dumping it all. And one of my poor boys, his favorite hoodie. Gone. We weren't even left with our toothbrushes.
Insurance is such that you have to fill out forms and stuff so we're having to buy essentials at our own cost for now. It kind of ticks me off that we're left here with no clothing and can't even get help for that.
Thanks for the sympathy everyone. I'm glad the K-7 takes AAs in the grip since I can't get a charger for it. I hope I at least come away from this with some decent shots. I think I got some the day before of NYC, statue of liberty and Ellis Is.