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Saturday, November 25, 2006 - (see all news for this day)
camera on its last legs? - 11:28 AM
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my camera isn't terrilby healthy. the lcd display has been playing up for quite a while. it's not in colour anymore & sometimes you have to wiggle it about (it's one of those screens which you can spin around & turn upside down & all sort of angles) to stop it showing a split screen with each half of the image on the opposite side of the screen to which it should be showing.
last night, however, when i took a picture after smiley had gone to sleep & the house was all quiet, i could hear it making a funny noise. it was very quiet & i had to put my ear right up against the camera to hear it properly. it's not a hard drive noise, because i've heard that normal noise many times. do you remember the old movies where they'd show someone at a computer console & it would have blinking lights all over it & would be making all sorts of high pitched bleepity-bloopy-bloppity-beep noises? hmm. yep. that's what i can hear from my camera. seriously.
i thought that noise was just same made up noise for movies & that nothing electronic actually ever made that noise. turns out it's a real noise after all .. & my camera's making it. i'm trying to recall now if the computers on the movies that made those noises were making them because they were about to kick the bucket.
it might be time to start saving up for a new digital camera. i was planning on eventually getting the lcd screen repaired, but with things like that going on with it, i think i'm better off just buying a new one. it's fairly old now anyway (well, in digital camera years), so i guess it's time.
which is why I got both of my last two cameras.
I took an extended warranty on this one though, so hopefully I'll get at least an extra year out of it! although yours would have to be about the oldest one I know that's still someone's primary camera!
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it seriously normally costs almost as much or more to get them repaired than it does to get a new one.