So Pretty I Broke the Camera

So, after tens of thousands of clicks since I bought my first digital SLR nearly five years go, a small piece of metal wire that held the mirror to the shutter on my camera snapped, causing an obstruction on any picture that I now try to take.

Since the last shots were of our Coco Kitten, I dug deep into my embedded elementary school insults and said to her, "you're so ugly you broke the camera" (it was either elementary school or an insult my Grandmother used to tell me...she was a bit of a nasty sort at times). Nicole didn't find this the least bit amusing, so now the line is the cat is too cute / pretty to have her picture taken.

Either way, the kitten was more concerned about watching the Montreal hockey game on television than responding to my jabs, which is interesting in its own way.

In keeping with my trend of fixing things with stupid methods, such as fixing my iPod with a piece of bubble wrap, I used a small piece of masking tape to join the shutter and its mirror back together, hereby, at least temporarily, fixing the unit so I can take pictures again until I decide to either fix the camera for real (unlikely), or buy a new one (which I was contemplating just this week anyhow).

The camera, the first Canon Digital Rebel SLR, has been great...not a complaint in the world really, and to say I've taken tens of thousands of shots with it is in no way an exaggeration. But, as technology has evolved, even basic handhelds can capture shots at higher megapixels than mine does now. So, upgrading after all this time seems like a reasonable thing to do.

And, if the masking tape holds, I can dedicate the old SLR to my microscopy shots. A win-win for everybody.