A story of a revived 
Olympus PEN-D film camera

   Many years ago I bought an half frame Olympus PEN-D film camera which had a very bright (1:1,9), 32mm lens. I shot a lot of pictures with it, and many were nice ones, because I have a bent for wideangle portraying.
   One day I jumped from an Hercules C119 (it wasn't a suicide attempt...), with the Olympus camera on my hands, shot some pictures, but soon after, the parachute lines went garbled and I began to zip down the earth like a dead weight, so I had no alternative but stop shooting pictures to try to save my beloved skin. In those frantic moments my PEN-D fell from an height of  roughly 200 metres.
   When I touched ground, savely, I asked my squad to search the area with me until we found the camera half stuck in the wet, lush, green, high weeds. With my survival knife I dug it out and made a picture of the neat hole with the very same camera.
   You know what? Days after, after having developed the film, someone wanted to buy it at a premium price, and, regrettely, I did. On november 5th, 2009 - the new digital camera Olympus E-P2 has taken over the controls.

Olympus PEN-D