My Camera, in Bitty Bits



So, a couple weeks ago I accidentally killed my camera. It's kind of a long story, but basically I ended up sailing it across the room at the daycare, where it collided rather forcefully with the floor.

Not my best day ever.

Yesterday, through the wonder of eBay, I was able to replace said camera, with extra batteries and memory cards and an adapter and filters that screw into that adapter, AND a new case.... which, offset by my Rambo-esque emptying of our storage room that I found out at the last minute would NOT be pro-rated if not emptied BEFORE the month changed over, ended up costing... oh, about 30 dollars.

Even when not offset, it was an amazing deal, and cheaper than downgrading (in megapixels, optical zoom, and features) to a more current camera model would have been.

Here's the picture of the new camera with toys that the Very Nice Man posted on eBay...



And now to the fun part of this... My old camera, so very loved, so very attached to my hand for so long now.... and now in so. many. pieces.



A little breath-taking, isn't it? See, the Mighty Da is nothing if not a techno-phile... and of course she had to try to fix my baby herself...



Here she shows us the tiny flaw that prevented said fixing.... She's pointing to how that one spoke is missing a teeny little... um... stick thingie? (It was sheered off when the camera impacted with the floor...)



Here she demonstrates why that stick is so necessary. See how the lens is falling sideways through its casing? Yeah, it's kind of hard to get it to focus on anything when it's pointed that way.



At this point Karen just kind of went off on this explanation of how all the pieces of my camera fit together... most of which rolled over me like so much incomprehensible, and yet strangely adorable, gibberish....



'See, the flotssamwinger fits thusly into the doohickey..."



OOH! That one I recognize - that's the LCD!



This is the part I found really impressive... Soooo many screws... and all sooooo tiny....



Also, this was the best she could do to find something resembling directions for assembling and disassembling the camera...



The final resting place of my lovely camera....



And the first picture taken with its replacement. Here's hoping we have as many good times together.
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Posted: Thu - February 9, 2006 at 05:20 PM      


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