Stolen K5

Hullman · 2012-05-25T20:59:56+0100

Dear All I'm a new member to the forums, only joined a couple of days ago after meeting FrtizTheDog at Bempton Cliffs shooting gannets. I'd rather hoped one of my first posts would be more positive, but I've had a terrible 24Hrs.. Last night I decided to pop out in Beverley to take some shots of the Minster by night, before starting to shoot I stopped in the town centre to get some cash from the hole in the wall. During the few minutes I left my car to get some cash someone broke into the boot and lifted all by camera gear. I wanted to post this here in case any of you see a K5 and various assorted bits up for sale somewhere. There is a more or less complete list below and I'll update with serial numbers once I get back home. What they took: - Monfroto Tripod Camera Bag containing: - K5 with 18-55mm Kit Lens - Sigma DG 70-300mm Zoom lens - Pentax-M 1.7 50mm - Phottix Strato II Wirless Flash Trigger + additional Slave (3 units in all) - Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit - 16Mb Sandisk Memory card with photos of Harlow Carr RHS gardens ! Lighting Bag (Portaflash bag, but not sure its branded) containing: - 2 x Portaflash Light stands - 2 x Portaflash light stand adaptors - 2 x Portaflash Umbrellas - 2 x Yongnuo YN-560 II flash guns - Popup reflector - case containing cokin filter adapters and 3 ND grads and a 10 stop screw on filter The k5 was only purchased a few months ago after saving jessops vouchers for over a year :-) I have an amazing family and they know how much my camera means to me so my parents went out today and spent a good portion of their savings to get me a new k5. I'm so humbled and grateful. On a slightly more practical note I now only have two lenses, the K5 kit 18-55 and a Sigma APO 170-500mm (which fortunately wasn't in the boot) so I'd welcome any advice on suitable, good value, glass to fill the gap i now have. Thanks in advance...

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Algernon Algernon

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Lancashire

Posted 17/07/2012 - 10:21 Link

Very often they target cars that look like company cars, because
they are almost certain to contain a laptop. Some cars are also
targeted because they have faulty/easyopen locks etc.

Half Man... Half Pentax ... Half Cucumber

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Algi