Cameraless
30 March 2005 15:52![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denMy camera broke!
The little plastic knob that holds the clip that seals and light-proofs the back flap broke off. A 1mm x 1mm x 5mm piece of plastic has left me without the means to take photos. For the first time since 1980 I am without a camera.
This is serious suckage.
The little plastic knob that holds the clip that seals and light-proofs the back flap broke off. A 1mm x 1mm x 5mm piece of plastic has left me without the means to take photos. For the first time since 1980 I am without a camera.
This is serious suckage.
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Date: 30 Mar 2005 17:39 (UTC)I may be weird (actually there's no debate required, I AM weird) but I usually have two identical or very similar cameras at any time. I usually get the first one new or secondhand, and if I like it after a year or so I can then pick up a "spare" secondhand. I've done this since I was a teenager with the Yashica Minister II 35mm compact (In fact I still have them both although they haven't been used in anger for many years now)
This idiosyncrasy has two advantages. Firstly if you have a spare you tend not to need it.
Secondly, if you do need it you've got the parts... which they don't make any longer.
I think I like my current camera (Fuji S7000) enough to go trawling through the camera shops etc to get a spare of it, but I will give it another couple of months of experimenting, just to make sure.