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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

The Camera

IRL Yesterday we had to take the van in to get a bunch of work done to it. Stan turned on the CD player to make sure we weren't leaving a CD in the player. Expecting to hear Pink Floyd if he heard anything, a very blurry "See Emily Play" warbled distantly. We realized this was no CD of ours, but a radio station...a distant, low-end of the FM dial radio station. But "See Emily Play?" "Wish You Were Here", ABITWII, Comfy Numb, "Money," yeah, ok, but Emily? Since when did radio start playing Emily? Since Syd died, oh, yeah, right, now it's popular. Grr.

So I had a dream that I turned on the TV and I saw very early Pink Floyd (post-Syd, but not by far)...they were so young...'68 or '69 at the latest. Of course I was watching Roger the whole time.

Well, yesterday was quite the bizarre day. Ever since I got back from vacation I was not able to shoot any of my jewelry I created while on vacation, what with getting started with an eBay store (I do not sell my jewelry on eBay, BTW...it's just for Bali beads) and all that post-vacation resettling. But yesterday was the day I would *finally* have time to shoot. I layed all my jewelry out on the bed, shot about 6 sets (12 shots) and then the card was full. Huh? I should have 32 shots on my card. Then I realized I still had Stan's 16-shot card in the camera and it was full of some plant shots. Naturally, I couldn't find my card, so I had to annoy Stan at work about it. So I put the new card in, and before I could shoot the next set of jewelry, I dropped the camera. It was only about a 2-foot drop, and I know I've dropped it before I'm pretty sure. But that was it. Each time I'd turn it to a shooting mode, the lens would come out and then retract, giving me an error "E14." A bit panicked, I tried to look for the camera manual. Naturally, I couldn't find it, although among further digging I found it in the computer bag we took with us on the trip. In the meantime, I scrounged up something about a Canon and an E14 error online, but it was in Polish. The response to it was in German (?!?), which I could translate online. And the pronouncement wasn't good. You don't want to get an E14 error. Another site in English referred to "the dreaded E14 error" but didn't elaborate on what it was. I called the place where I bought my camera. They said I'd probably have to send it in to Canon. I went to a branch of the place I bought it closer to where we live. The manager said that it wouldn't be worth it to have it repaired, and that Canon probably won't even be able to repair it because it was so old (I bought it the fall of 2000). Technology gets outdated so fast now.

I knew this day would come some time, but I thought we could put the Canon S20 into a graceful retirement, shooting pictures on trips and at Pug parties, but not for the more precision work of shooting a 4mm Bali bead or down the throat of a cactus flower which would be the job of a better, more expensive camera with a powerful macro feature.

To make an already long story short, we, er, I should say *I* bought a new camera (I broke it, I buy a new one...Stan got off easy on this one)...a "Lumix" Panasonic FZ7. Supposed to have a great lens. We tried it in the store, loading pics I took (using Stan's rings as test subjects) into my laptop. Seems like a nice camera. So I got a 2 GB card to go with it. Naturally, all the Canon cards and batteries are not usable.

The weird thing...with all the accessories taken into account for both cameras, I spent about half of what I paid for the Canon 6 years ago. I guess if you're going to outdate technology so quickly, you damn well better make it cheaper!

There's a big learning curve.

But a great new feature...it also makes MOVIES!!!!

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5 Comments:

Blogger Stan said...

I'm really looking forward to shooting pictures of very small things like cactus seedlings. In time this may improve my website a lot....

4:40 PM  
Blogger Lavender Dawn said...

"The weird thing...with all the accessories taken into account for both cameras, I spent about half of what I paid for the Canon 6 years ago"

this is so true! just don't drop it....

;p

10:58 PM  
Blogger Ann said...

I hope I won't! This one has a shoulder strap, so I'll wear it around my neck all the time I'm using it. the other one just had a small hand strap that I never used because it was awkward.

8:33 AM  
Blogger Lavender Dawn said...

oh that is good. i hate those hand strappy things. they suck.

3:58 PM  
Anonymous Erik said...

See Emily Play. Love it! They seldom play any tracks from the Works album at all.

5:47 AM  

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