I have never been much of a camera person. I have had them all - from a Kodak Brownie to an Instamatic to (eventually) a Nikon SLR and a couple of different Polaroid instant cameras. When the digital revolution started, I got an HP camera. None of them really got me excited about taking pictures.
Then two years ago, I got a Casio EX-Z750 exilim digital camera. It was lightweight and it could take hundreds of pictures or a long chunk of video on a single charge. I started carrying it with me everywhere and ended up with pictures of anything and everything.
My icon was taken with that camera along with dozens more of the animals at the zoo and the dogs at home. I have dozens of pics from Disneyland and Dollywood and many more of flowers.
I had just started printing photos on to fabric to make a quilt and a couple of other things. For the first time, I was having fun with a camera.
It also enabled me to get serious about eBaying since I could easily take and upload any number of detailed pictures of the item I wanted to sell. When I wasn't using it, it sat in the charger on the side of my desk ready to go at a moment's notice. Until Thursday.
I picked it up and pushed the button and got - - - - - - - silence. I took the battery out and cleaned the contacts and put it back in and still - - - - - - - - - silence. After futzing with it for a long while, it finally turned on - sort of - it beeped when it was supposed to and eventually the display came on and I was able to take a picture. But then it told me that there was a card error and eventually that my memory card was empty. It allowed me to store one picture in the camera's internal memory and then it told me that the memory was full.
It didn't matter anyway because when I put it back in the cradle, it wouldn't communicate with the computer either. I got a pitiful beep or two and then it fell silent once again. That was the end of my Christmas eBay sales and of family photos this year and of anything else for a while.
So my poor baby got stuck back in her box and wrapped up tightly in bubble wrap and more bubble wrap and a bunch of packing peanuts and then stuffed into a Priority post shoebox and taken to the local post office for an emergency ride to the Casio service center in Dover NJ. It is the first time she has been away from me and the furthest she has ever been from home. I wanted to be the one to show her the NY area not some evil post person who is probably delighting in tossing the box marked fragile from one end of the postal truck to the other.
I want my baby back.
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So while one might be able to drop a non-digital camera onto the sidewalk or in the grass, dropping a digital one could very well be fatal to the camera (and not not covered under the warranty). Additionally, toting a digital camera around inside of a purse and not in the carrying case can be a very bad idea; a small jostle in the purse and it could be turned on, causing the lens mechanism to jam or have other some such damage occur a a result thereof; again, not something covered by the warranty.
I wish I had the money to get a digital camera. I love taking pictures. For now, I have to be content with the digital camera in my mobile phone, which has a whopping resolution of 640x480 pixels (that's regular pixels, not megapixels). And unless there's a ton of light and the subject is at a relatively close distance and there's no movement, the picture ends up quite fuzzy :(
Good luck on the expedient and safe return of your baby!
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I am behind in comments, but I wanted to let you know I stopped by to view your content and thank you for posting to I was bored :)