R.I.P.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate the life of MizD’s camera: a camera whose essence was suddenly, though not unexpectedly, extinguished on the evening of December the Fifth in the year of our Lord, 2006.
True, the signs were all there: The stuttering LED that too often spewed forth cuneiform in place of digits. The dimming sensors crying for light. The morning’s greeting, not cheerful and informative, but tragic — a single, solitary and altogether ominous utterance: ERR.
Oh, poor camera, you never had a name. Poor camera, you suffered through far too many cursings while your feckless owner struggled with your outdated controls. Poor, poor camera, so battered, so used.
We commend you to the box of non-functionals, oh camera, and to Elmo, patron saint of misguided electrical discharges, we offer up this prayer: may your afterlife be filled with light and joy, and may it always be in focus. Amen.
MizD’s camera. August 2002 – December 2006.
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December 7th, 2006 at 11:03 pm
Oh, you have my deepest sympathies.
I went through a similar situation when my camera passed after 26,000 photos … right in the middle of chocolate Easter egg season.
So sad … so sad. It will get easier. Remember the happy pictures. They’ll get you through.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
*sniff*
My condolences on your loss, MizD.
December 8th, 2006 at 5:35 am
Alas, poor camera, I hardly knew ye.
*hugs*
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Thanks for hosting this week!
December 8th, 2006 at 9:39 am
Whoa… Waitaminnit, dude. So, like, how did you TAKE the picture?
I gotta go lie down.
December 8th, 2006 at 9:46 am
The shutter shuddered and, at last, shattered sadly, silently, shockingly.
December 8th, 2006 at 10:51 am
That mega-bytes……
December 8th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Awww, thanks guys. Y’all are welcome to be mourners at my funeral any day. Especially if you bring the jokes! Ah yes, the happy pictures…
CC, your brain didn’t explode: we borrowed a camera from Chopper’s stepdad. It is Paper Chef weekend, after all. Next week though, I am bereft of megapixels, which, as Barbara sez, mega-bytes. Heh.
Oh, important note to WCB subbers: I have my spammity spam filters set to put any comment with a link in it into the moderation queue. So, if you don’t see your comment immediately, yet you see others, that’s why. Don’t worry though, I’ll check the queue on a regular basis this weekend.
So, does anyone else here think Kevin missed his calling? (He’s either the next Poe, or he’s gunning for Bulwer-Lytton finalist. Snicker.)
December 8th, 2006 at 11:42 am
Yeah, like we used to say back at school:
“It was a stark and dormy night.”
December 8th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Rest in peace, Minolta. May you find perfect lighting and focus in camera heaven.
So….what are you buying next? Enquiring minds want to know. Especially since my trusty Canon is about ready to give up the ghost.
December 8th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
My Nikon is observing a moment of lens-capped silence.
btw, a friend of mine placed in BW’03 with this:
“Anton was attracted to Angela like a moth to a flame - not just any moth, but one of the giant silk moths of the genus Hyalophora, perhaps Hyalophora euryalus, whose great red-brown wings with white basal and postmedian lines flap almost languorously until one ignites in the flame, fanning the conflagration to ever greater heights until burning down to the hirsute thorax and abdomen, the fat-laden contents of which provide a satisfying sizzle to end the agony.”
by Andrew Emlen
December 8th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
CC: You had dormies in High School? Cool!
Hey Kathy, I wish I knew. At the moment, we’ve got big icky (student loan) bills to contend with, so the replacement budget is a bit on the non-existent side. The camera I’m borrowing is a teensy little Casio Exilim S500 — the thing’s a friggin’ postage stamp compared to the clunky Minolta. So far, I’m liking some aspects of it (better in low light, better color balance for food pics, some fun “best shot” choices), but other things annoy the hell out of me — like when it freezes on the scene while I’m trying to get the pre-focus to work. Of course my dream camera would be a digital SLR like a Nikon D70, but, um, I think that’ll have to wait for that winning lottery ticket!
KM, first thing that went on the Minolta was the lens cap. Broke, stopped fitting, searched high and low for a replacement, and (surprise, surprise) parts for this baby were already obsolete.
Tell Andrew: ::thunderous applause:: and also: I assume the sizzling, fat-laden moth abdomen smelled like barbecued chicken, no?
(ps: for some strange reason, my spam filter always stops your comments. I’ve scolded it several times but it won’t listen. Silly spam filter!)