dead, dead, oh so dead
sigh.. Digital cameras are wonderful things. Mine has been immensely useful over the last few years, and every pic I have posted here has been taken by it. SO, mid-Labor Day weekend, when we were in Chicago for a wedding, it decided to tell me something. That something was “E18″. I was confused, not sure I understood, and so I tried any resuscitation I could provide.. new battery, recharge the old one.. you get the idea.. its just gone. the Canon website helpfully says the E18 (along with about 6 other codes) could mean a lot of things, and that I should just send it in to my local service center. Turns out their idea of “local” is Illinois. So I am supposed to send my camera into the wild blue yonder with no guarantee that it will ever return, no estimate on what it might cost me to repair or if they think that the camera is screwed, might as well get another one. Doesn’t that seem odd? Here’s the last picture my camera took… (and yes it died just hours before the wedding
) little did I know what was coming next….
September 19th, 2004 at 1:54 pm
My Kodak had a problem where the battery tray wouldn’t stay in the camera. I was also skeptical that it would be fixable, figuring we’re in a throw-away society now and they would tell me “can’t fix” or “too expensive to fix.” I almost didn’t call, but I did. Kodak said to send it in, I did, they sent it back, fixed, no charge. And later when the battery tray broke, they mailed me a new one. You just have to say “normal wear and tear,” not that you ran over it with your car. I was glad that at least one company still fixes things instead of expecting you to buy another one.