When DSLRs go bad… <pity party>This should’ve been a photo of a pink flower in a light blue pool, but my camera unilaterally decided to underexpose and posterize it. Whenever it has an episode like this, which has been happening with ever-increasing frequency, it locks up for the next 30 seconds and then needs to be rebooted, while I curse and whatever I wanted to photograph escapes (I generally also use this time to note that the rubber grip has detached, the memory card door has a gaping hole in it, etc.). They really don’t make cameras like they used to. </pity party> Anyway, after over a year of the old Konica Minolta becoming more and more unreliable, I’m trying out a new-to-me A700. So far it’s been lovely, but I’m surprisingly nostalgic about the gimpy old camera, and I feel like a spoiled brat for acquiring yet another (albeit used) camera.

When DSLRs go bad…

<pity party>This should’ve been a photo of a pink flower in a light blue pool, but my camera unilaterally decided to underexpose and posterize it. Whenever it has an episode like this, which has been happening with ever-increasing frequency, it locks up for the next 30 seconds and then needs to be rebooted, while I curse and whatever I wanted to photograph escapes (I generally also use this time to note that the rubber grip has detached, the memory card door has a gaping hole in it, etc.). They really don’t make cameras like they used to. </pity party>

Anyway, after over a year of the old Konica Minolta becoming more and more unreliable, I’m trying out a new-to-me A700. So far it’s been lovely, but I’m surprisingly nostalgic about the gimpy old camera, and I feel like a spoiled brat for acquiring yet another (albeit used) camera.