I’ve always gotten my mother’s hand-me-down digital cameras because she has upgraded several times. For a couple of years, I had one that served me pretty well. But toward the end of its life, it started eating through batteries and being a bit unreliable. It met its end last August in Hawaii, when a huge wave hit me while I was climbing on some cliffs in Halona Cove and drenched my bag, including cell phone and camera. Luckily I was able to recover the photos from it, or I’d really have been upset!
My mother offered me another camera, but it was really big and bulky for a digital, which just didn’t work for me. Then she bought a new one that takes photos and long videos, so she offered me the one she’d been using that takes photos and short video clips. I was happy to take it, but I learned quickly (on a weekend trip to a wedding, unfortunately) that it’s really pretty useless… it functions all weird, and only takes pics when it feels like it. So I really need to cave in and buy myself a nice, quality one for a change. I LOVE taking pictures (actually studied photography) and making scrapbooks, and although I love my trusty old-school Pentax K1000 for “real” photography, it’s just impractical to use a film camera for everyday picture-taking. So a new digital would definitely be a sound investment, but I’m just poor.
