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!
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The right to bear Canons
Jim Heffernan, formerly of the Duluth News Tribune editorial staff, wrote a great letter that was titled "Obama isn't coming after your guns". Unfortunately, none of the letters for 2012-02-21 were posted online, and so I can't give those of you outside Duluth a link to Jim's letter. [Update: Jim's letter is at http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/223784/]
Although Wayne LaPierre, executive vice-president of the National Rifle Association, backed off from any claim that President Obama has tried "to take guns away" in his first term, LaPierre stated, "he's hiding his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment in his second term." ["At CPAC, Defeating Obama Trumps Fight for Nomination", New York Times, Erik Eckholm, 2012-02-11.] Jim wrote that LaPierre "doesn't have a clue" about Obama's intentions. Jim countered that he knows "very well that LaPierre and the NRA soon will arm every student in Columbine High School in Colorado with an assault rifle." Jim adds that of course he doesn't know that, but he wouldn't be surprised.
In an email exchange with Jim, I wrote, "the right to bear cameras should be the same as the right to bear cannons. (Or the right to bear a Canon or a cannon.)" See "Constitution, Rights, and secretive Congress".
Although Wayne LaPierre, executive vice-president of the National Rifle Association, backed off from any claim that President Obama has tried "to take guns away" in his first term, LaPierre stated, "he's hiding his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment in his second term." ["At CPAC, Defeating Obama Trumps Fight for Nomination", New York Times, Erik Eckholm, 2012-02-11.] Jim wrote that LaPierre "doesn't have a clue" about Obama's intentions. Jim countered that he knows "very well that LaPierre and the NRA soon will arm every student in Columbine High School in Colorado with an assault rifle." Jim adds that of course he doesn't know that, but he wouldn't be surprised.
In an email exchange with Jim, I wrote, "the right to bear cameras should be the same as the right to bear cannons. (Or the right to bear a Canon or a cannon.)" See "Constitution, Rights, and secretive Congress".
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