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Foto Friday/30 Days of Writing: Best friend (8/30)

June 8, 2012

Outside of human friends, this guy is my best friend.

This post is written in conjunction with the 30 Days of Writing, a blog challenge devised by Nicky and Mike at “We Work For Cheese.” I’ll be participating throughout the month of June. If interested, you can see my post with the details of the challenge. 

Please note that some of these posts will be serious, some will be normal, and some will be an attempt at humor. This one has a little of everything. 

I could spend a lot of time talking about best friends.

See, I don’t believe in the “one” best friend. I feel any close friend is a best friend of sorts. So I could talk about traveling with some best friends. Or being in a wedding. Or playing softball. Or learning some new outdoorsy game, like geocaching. Or traveling half way across the country to see someone really get a start in life.

This guy was my best friend for a few years as well.

There are close friends who I only talk to like three or four times per year. But they are still close friends, thus a best friend of sorts.

And having best friends is a wonderful things. I’ve had the chance to see many of them get married, have kids, succeed in life. Many have been there for me, too, especially over the past year and a half when I’ve needed many “lift-me-up” moments.

But, I fear if I talk about some of this stuff, I’ll leave someone out.

So I’m going to go somewhere else with this.

My camera.

Photography goes back a long way with me and my family.

My grandfather was an avid photographer (I wish I had some of his old images… they would be cool to have and look at). When I was younger and we visited them in Philadelphia, he’d take me on his daily walk to a Fotomat booth to drop off or pick up film. He’d always joke that he was going to visit his “girlfriend, so don’t tell grandmom.”

Of course, those “girlfriends” were way younger and not really girlfriends!

If it was a day he picked up film and I was lucky enough, he would let me open up the envelope to see the wonderful images he took. It was so cool!

My friendship with photography started there.

As I grew, I used many different types of cameras. Old Kodak 120 cameras, the disc cameras, point-and-shoots and, eventually learning the film 35mm cameras when I worked for my first newspaper — as a seventh and eighth grader working for the local daily.

My uncles still love photos. In fact, one of my uncles gave me one of my grandfather’s final cameras he used. A nice 35mm film camera. I need to get another lens or two for it, but it works very well. It’s cool to have.

For a few years, when I went back to college in the late 90s/early 2000s, I stepped away from photography. Film was expensive and I couldn’t afford the digital age. That would come at a later time.

My current buddy. When this guy arrives, I was in total euphoria.

Photography has exploded in recent years.

With digital being as it is, it becomes cheaper and cheaper. Many people are discovering photography and utilizing it. I’m on my third digital SLR and love this camera more than I can say.

It’s been to Ireland with me. It’s visited all sorts of areas I’ve been to. It’s taken sports photos, weddings, kids of friends, people shots, candids and so much more. I love having the camera with me.

Having the camera gives me some freedom and the feeling of knowing I can make some sort of art any time I snap the shutter. My current pal has probably taken more than 100,000 images since I bought it in 2010 — and that’s a low-ball estimate.

And, it also takes HD video — which kicks total ass.

Believe me, I have some great best friends. And many of them have been in the photos I’ve taken. But, as I noted, I’d leave someone out with a post about them. They know who they are and what they mean to me.

They also know what the camera means to me and that’s proof of a good friendship.

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Filed Under: Cameras, Foto Friday, My world, Photography, We Work For Cheese Challenges Tagged With: 30 days of writing, 30 days of writing challenge, canon, Canon 30D, canon 7d, foto, foto friday, my life, photography, photos, we work for cheese challenge, we work for cheese.

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Canon 30d in need of help!

January 11, 2010

Murphy’s Law, I guess.

Just when I’ve turned up using my main camera, things go wrong. Go figure.

Last night, I put my 430ex flash on my 30D for a few photos. When done, I went to loosen it and take it off. It wouldn’t budge.

Hmmm, I wondered aloud as I tried to work it a big and nothing happened.

I tried a pair of pliers, in the hopes I could help it loosen. Nothing.

So, I walked away for a bit to do some research and see what I could find. Alas, it seems to be nothing at this point. Time to try it again.

You know those pieces of thin rubber people use to loosen jar tops? I still have one I got from the school when I was in college. So, mix that with a wrench and I have the flash being loosened.

Not so fast.

But wait, the flash still wouldn’t come off the mount. What the heck?

So, I needed to use a little extra force and it finally popped off.

Here’s the problem — it looks like the bottom of the 430 at the front (the part that is pushed in first) has a small bent rod as it’s pushing forward and a piece of the plastic isn’t looking so good. Cripes!

Also, and this is the part that is really bothering me, the popup flash isn’t working now. So I think something is wrong with the camera, too.

I don’t have 300-400 bucks to send this into Canon to get fixed right now, but I need the use of some sort of flash sometimes. It doesn’t look like anything is in the hot shoe area to make it think there’s still something there and when I switched to “auto” inside to see if the flash would pop, all it did was switch to a very long exposure, as if to show that there was no usable flash.

I estimate the cost because a couple of years ago, I had damaged the pop up and hotshoe. Both needed to be replaced and it cost around $360. Figure in shipping costs, and you’re at the $400 mark. THEN, I’d have to also figure about the flash.

Not cool.

I had been smart enough recently to realize that spending $1,700 on a new camera at this point is nuts as I have a trip to Ireland I’m saving up for. I really wasn’t looking forward to this, though, as it will take a little away from the vacation kitty — something I don’t need.

I’m going to show the camera to a couple of photo friends and get some imput. I charged up the battery for the point-and-shoot and the Digital Rebel (haven’t used this camera in YEARS!), so I should be able to continue my Project 365 without any problems, but still… not looking forward to sending this in for repair.

This is when I really wish there was a local camera shop to take my stuff too. Alas, those — like many other businesses — are becoming harder and harder to find.

Guess I’ll have to decide soon.

Just when I was getting back into using the camera, too. Argh!

More later.

Filed Under: Cameras Tagged With: Cameras, Canon 30D

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