Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
-Mel Brooks
Long story short, I was interviewed for a magazine and they asked for a picture of me with the kids. Which I do not have, since I am always the one behind the camera.
So after much abuse Jeff agreed to go outside and take the picture. I get the kids cleaned up, I brush my hair (I should really do that more often), and we go out and shoot a gazillion pictures because my kids are incapable of smiling like normal human beings.
And then—
Jeff dropped my camera. Lens fully extended. Into the drippy, sloppy mud.
I’m pretty sure some condensation got behind the lens. The lens cover doesn’t shut. And even if it did, I’d be worried about the lens getting scratched- there is definitely mud in there.
So the question now is- do I pony up $200 for a new point-and-shoot? Or wait until the end of the year when I have (optimistically) saved up enough to buy a DSLR?
OK, it’s not real tragedy. But I feel like I’m missing a hand.
oh i would be so not happy. hugs! i def. vote for putting that $200 toward a DSLR. Now if I could just arrange for someone to drop mine with the lens open so I can get my DSLR sooner 🙂
No! That is definitely a tragedy, especially for someone like you who uses a camera every day.
I would try to see if you could get a really cheap used point-and-shoot on eBay or something, then put the rest of the $200 into savings for a DSLR. You take so many beautiful pictures, I'm surprised you don't have a DSLR! Although – have you checked with the manufacturer to see if they'll repair it? That might be even cheaper.
P.S. I have internet again! I can read blogs again! I'll be putting up a blog about my adventures here in Europe soon.
Definitely a tragedy!
Last year we went to Marineland in Niagara Falls, a birthday treat for my wants-to-be-a-marine-biologist 10yo. I was taking tons of pictures. Then when he was lined up to pet and feed the belugas, I dropped my camera.
No mud, but hard pavement, and yes it was on, with the lens fully extended.
It landed right on the lens part, and something bent. It would no longer retract or extend, it was just stuck. The teeny lens covers were cracked off too. When you tried to take a picture, it would try to focus and you just heard the thing grinding because it couldn't move.
I tried re-bending things but never was able to fix it. We got no more pictures the rest of the trip. 🙁 But, at least the pictures we had already taken were fine. A little-known advantage of digital cameras perhaps? If it had been a "regular" camera, it probably would have popped open, exposing the film, or bent the film case, or something like that.
Hmm, I think I should make a blog post about our trips — we went again a month later and got some great pics with our new camera!!!