Several weeks ago I "fried" my compact camera. As usual, I had it on my hip as I drove to Brimson. But that hip was also sore, and so I put a hot pad on it.
When I got to our cabin, I decided to take a picture from the same place as a week or two before. I had taken a nice picture through some pines of our sauna with snow on the ground. Now I wanted to take a picture without snow.
When I turned the camera on the screen showed "Lens error". I turned it on and off but nothing improved. When I got back to Duluth I checked the manual. Turning the camera on and off was the suggestion. If that didn't work, the camera would require service.
I took it to the camera store where I bought it and left it with $25 for an estimate from the manufacturer. I might have to wait 4-6 weeks for the estimate.
So, I start dreaming. If the repairs were too much, then I would buy a new camera. Let's see, more zoom, brighter view finder, Canon instead of Nikon because I prefer Canon's software, my finger wouldn't cover part of the lens, … How much would too much be? $200-250?
About three weeks ago the estimate came in - $117 and some cents. That's a lot less than $200 or the $350 for the kind of camera I would like next. OK, fix the camera.
Yesterday I received a call that the camera had been returned, and today I picked it up. Still, I couldn't resist the techno-lust and the salesman showed me a nifty Nikon with a 14x zoom. Gosh, that would make it easier to get a picture of skittish woodpeckers than my 5x zoom.
Sigh, maybe some other year!
