The camera doesn’t work.
I spent all of about $50 on the sucker back in May with my birthday money. It was last year’s model, priced very nice — hence the immediate purchase.
So I went along my merry way, taking pictures of random trips around the universe in general. It came with me to the Everglades, to Disney World, to Sarasota and all points in between.
Now it doesn’t work. It takes pictures, but they look like crappy shots, sort of like blown up far away shots they use on the covers of tabloid magazines.
This isn’t the first time something with more than a couple of moving parts or simple electricity went kaput on me. At one time, my television, my car and my computer all went on the fritz — in one week. I’ve gone through two cars with “issues.” My last camera broke when water got on it. Just a drip of water, and my $100 camera — to the graveyard. The computer before this one died soon after I used it — and although it probably wasn’t my fault, I’m not sure some sort of unconcious bad voodoo I put on electronic devices had something to do with it.
Sometimes it was my fault (see: getting water on camera). But most of the time, the electronic device just decides to stop working. Planned obsolescence gone wacky. Or some sort of grand conspiracy. I’m going with a conspiracy.
Now I have to save for a new camera. Yay.
