The last few years Marti and I have had a terrible time keeping track of our cameras, and to date I believe we’ve lost 2 so far. I’m not sure exactly how it is possible for us to “lose” a camera, but the last time we saw our Olympus (which I liked very much) was at the annual mud puddle at Reid Park here in Tucson two years ago. We got all these great shots of Ben and Maya with 2,000 of their closest friends playing in giant, fire-hose created puddles of mud…only to get home and be totally unable to find our camera. Probably I set it on a table, or on top of the car, or Maya “took” some pictures and left it on the grass, who knows? Â Sadly, all those photos of my children completely covered in mud are all gone.
So, I told Marti I wanted a cheap camera this time, thinking that our camera, which was $300 when we bought it, could be re-purchased for a song.
Wrong.
Cheap is still cheap, and the little digital camera ($75) we bought to replace ours, well, sucked. I could only get decent shots if it was on manual and I set each and every setting myself, the flash washed everything out and photos were grainy or blurry all the time. Â We stopped taking it with us, it became such a chore to actually shoot a single photo, and the video option only worked outside. I mean, come on, I’m only going to take videos outside? Â In perfect lighting? Â Because too much light would overexpose the video (read: digital, still overexposing) and too little would make it look like twilight, with vaguely moving blurry shapes. Â Also, unless I set the white color on it manually, everything turned out blue-ish.
This sad excuse of a camera was MIA as of a few weeks ago, and I can’t say I miss it.
While my parents were visiting, I borrowed the Sony Cyber-Shot my siblings and I bought them a couple years ago. Â Yes, I bought my parents a decent camera, but didn’t buy one for myself. I was really impressed with their camera, and have a few hundred photos to sift through and post on this blog.
Because that’s the point of this endless ramble: until I get a new camera, just expect my crappy writing, no pictures. Â The end.
