Death of a Camera

I checked my old blog posts, and it was eleven years ago that I bought the Sony compact digital camera that I have been using.

It has served me well... through innumerable trips to Mexico, several trips to Europe, and during the two and a half years that I have lived in Mexico.  However, in the last few months, it has been acting strangely.  Sometimes, if I pressed the button to take a video, the menu would appear instead, and if I wanted to go to the menu, I would sometimes have to press that button several times.  I figured that the poor thing was probably on its last legs.  Then the other day, the on / off button would not work.  The only way I could turn the camera on was to access the old photos, and when I left that mode, the lens would open.  The only way to turn it off was to let the battery-saver feature turn it off automatically after a few minutes.  The old Sony was definitely not something I would want to use any more.

If you have been reading this blog for a long time, and have a really good memory, you might recall that a number of years ago, I forgot to bring my camera with me on a trip to Mexico.  Fortunately, Alejandro had a Samsung digital camera that he had hardly ever used.  I was able to use it for that trip.

I figured that when my camera finally died his Samsung would be my backup. Alejandro uses his cellphone exclusively for taking photos.  (The camera on my cellphone is not that great, and I only use it in a pinch.)  So, I now have a new camera without having to buy a new one.