Something which caused me great sorrow was when my Nikon Coolpix, bought on a visit to the UK, suddenly started featuring pubs … er, bars … across every picture. I was particularly fond of it because of the extreme battery life, plus the fact that it came with a spare one of those anyway. It has been a staple for my blog.
I recently took it in for repairs. After the quote, and I had been picked up off the floor and revived with smelling-salts and whatnot, it was suggested that for less than that cost I could get another more modern Coolpix – and also with a spare battery. I sighed, and disrupted the lives of the moths in my pocket.
The above gives two views taken from the home of Br-and-Sr-i-l. Normal, and zoom. The central palm tree gives a reference point Not bad, for something that can easily be slipped into a shirt pocket!
New home renovations etc are proceeding apace, and reports and pictures will follow. I am still involved in a most exciting editing project which is coming to a head. There is a deadline, because the celebrity author wants to take it to the Frankfurt Book Fair in October but the last chapters are yet to be written!
My driving listening at the moment is the saved fragments of the unfinished Third Symphony of Elgar. It blows my mind. What a tragedy he fell ill and died before he could complete it. From the very first notes, there is a surging energy – a feeling of urgent purpose and a sort of inexorability …
In contrast, The Spanish Lady, his incomplete opera also on the same DVD, is lighter with some really enchanting melodies.
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I have to concur Colonialist. Great shits.
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They are THAT bad? 🙂
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Yes the days of replacing and not fixing
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I still find it hard to adjust to that. One doesn’t mind too much if the replacement is an improvement, but what annyoys is when one is paying more for something junkier.
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Battery life huh. I can’t work out if there is something wrong with my camera or that rechargeable batteries just end up dying anyway. Not that I’ve used my camera for ages, get better pix on iPhone 5 and it’s smaller, and the videos don’t zap the battery – and it cost more than a cheap camera. Fits in a shirt pocket though, or shorts pocket in my case.
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I can get some good quality shots on my phone camera, but the application is limited when it comes to doing anything sophisticated.
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The later iPhones (I first had a plain 3) have really ramped up the camera capacity. And as I’m not remotely sophisticated I don’t need a remote or a sophisticated camera 🙂
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My phone is still a long way from having assumed a lower-case ego!
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I know my hubby likes to hold onto his dated and much loved appliances, but once forced to change he is akin to a new-born-appliance-man, telling all and sundry how wonderful things are!
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I hate having to ‘break in’ something new – so when I do replace I tend to go for something similar to the predecessor.
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Sorry about the expensive camera trouble, and glad you’ve got it sorted. You must have been traumatised – there are no puns in your post (unless I missed them!)
ViV
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The blow of it made me punsdrunk, in fact!
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glad to see you and moths gave in and bought a new camera. you have been missing the old, highly lamented Coolpix.
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I have missed it indeed. Now all I need is the time to take and post all the photos I want to!
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It’s always fun Breaking in (not as in dropping it!) a new camera. Great shits.
Sounds like you are busy these days.
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I really should be kind and alter that typo – but then it is too good not to preserve!
Busy is a great understatement. I don’t even have much time to eat or sleep.
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