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So my camera broke, nearly two months ago.
It started with randomly flipping itself into macro mode, progressed almost immediately to blue jelly aliens, and only a few weeks later suddenly decided pictures don't need to be exposed, so on a brilliant sunny day everything was nearly black.
It was still under warranty. Which means I've spent two months in warranty hell. Future Shop promised it would ship to Halifax, and be back in a week, two max.
We checked in two weeks later.
They had shipped it to Toronto.
We have heard nothing since, except some vague mention of a new lens. Which hardly filled me with joy. Since they don't make that model anymore. IF they found a lens, I'm sure it was refurbished from a dumpster.
So, for some time, I have accepted I'm not getting my camera back. Before I got chucked into the ER with deeper concerns, I tried out other cameras. Anything I could find, even expected fails.
I tried Polaroid, several Fujis, Kodak, Nikon--and those were just the ones that came home. I left the others in store because they were failboating right at the display and even with determined tinkering, could NOT take a semi-decent shot IN STORE.
All of the cameras have failed. They take blurry shots, no matter the light conditions. They're all underexposed, making even sunny days drab and colourless. And colour....dear odds, none of them can even TRY to approximate colours. In light conditions any less than looking directly into the sun, they take about three minutes to take a picture and it's just black. This is WAY beyond can't deal with low light. And if they manage a picture, a 12MP camera is pixelated to nearly unrecognisable. Because 'low'--meaning ALL light conditions--mean the camera shoots in 3MB, but still in enormous blown up size.
And they can't do macros. Period.
It's INSANE.
I can't understand how my camera, which was three years old, and NOT a new release when purchased, is kicking the living shit out of brand new cameras, which have 3+ years of new tech and more MB, and therefore SHOULD have better auto, features, settings, stabilisation, etc.
I got frustrated and desperate enough to look at DSLRs, which I, of course, can't ever use and can't afford. But I wanted to see if SOMETHING could still take pictures. Ah, the horror of seeing reviews with actual pictures, TERRIBLE pictures, saying things like 'this is exceptional quality, considering the price' and the price is, oh, $7000 USD, if you just get the basics.
WHY?
WHY would anyone do that?
But you read a bit more, and you realise why, the SLR and DSLR wankers. They take GREAT pleasure is spitting on, at length, anyone who takes pictures with a point and click or a bridge camera. Or ANYTHING that has an auto feature. So they WILL spend $7000 to take HORRIFIC pictures, just so they can feel elite.
Dicks. It always comes down to dicks.
So I am cameraless, and will remain cameraless. This seemed impossible, and unfathomable, having taken over 20k shots in about 6 years, always having my camera with me, in loving arm's reach. But it is what it is.
On the plus side, my opportunities for landscapes and macros are rather limited from my bed, so I don't have beautiful things needing clicks to torment me and my loss...
Well, except the guys, but they always got annoyed by the posing anyway...
It started with randomly flipping itself into macro mode, progressed almost immediately to blue jelly aliens, and only a few weeks later suddenly decided pictures don't need to be exposed, so on a brilliant sunny day everything was nearly black.
It was still under warranty. Which means I've spent two months in warranty hell. Future Shop promised it would ship to Halifax, and be back in a week, two max.
We checked in two weeks later.
They had shipped it to Toronto.
We have heard nothing since, except some vague mention of a new lens. Which hardly filled me with joy. Since they don't make that model anymore. IF they found a lens, I'm sure it was refurbished from a dumpster.
So, for some time, I have accepted I'm not getting my camera back. Before I got chucked into the ER with deeper concerns, I tried out other cameras. Anything I could find, even expected fails.
I tried Polaroid, several Fujis, Kodak, Nikon--and those were just the ones that came home. I left the others in store because they were failboating right at the display and even with determined tinkering, could NOT take a semi-decent shot IN STORE.
All of the cameras have failed. They take blurry shots, no matter the light conditions. They're all underexposed, making even sunny days drab and colourless. And colour....dear odds, none of them can even TRY to approximate colours. In light conditions any less than looking directly into the sun, they take about three minutes to take a picture and it's just black. This is WAY beyond can't deal with low light. And if they manage a picture, a 12MP camera is pixelated to nearly unrecognisable. Because 'low'--meaning ALL light conditions--mean the camera shoots in 3MB, but still in enormous blown up size.
And they can't do macros. Period.
It's INSANE.
I can't understand how my camera, which was three years old, and NOT a new release when purchased, is kicking the living shit out of brand new cameras, which have 3+ years of new tech and more MB, and therefore SHOULD have better auto, features, settings, stabilisation, etc.
I got frustrated and desperate enough to look at DSLRs, which I, of course, can't ever use and can't afford. But I wanted to see if SOMETHING could still take pictures. Ah, the horror of seeing reviews with actual pictures, TERRIBLE pictures, saying things like 'this is exceptional quality, considering the price' and the price is, oh, $7000 USD, if you just get the basics.
WHY?
WHY would anyone do that?
But you read a bit more, and you realise why, the SLR and DSLR wankers. They take GREAT pleasure is spitting on, at length, anyone who takes pictures with a point and click or a bridge camera. Or ANYTHING that has an auto feature. So they WILL spend $7000 to take HORRIFIC pictures, just so they can feel elite.
Dicks. It always comes down to dicks.
So I am cameraless, and will remain cameraless. This seemed impossible, and unfathomable, having taken over 20k shots in about 6 years, always having my camera with me, in loving arm's reach. But it is what it is.
On the plus side, my opportunities for landscapes and macros are rather limited from my bed, so I don't have beautiful things needing clicks to torment me and my loss...
Well, except the guys, but they always got annoyed by the posing anyway...
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