Showing posts with label Canon Camera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canon Camera. Show all posts

Friday, 29 November 2024

Old Cameras and Suicide


It was the Christmas shopping wot done it.  
There I was, happily seeking items on various charity shop site when cameras came into view.  Now I have not been out and about enough to warrant seeking old cameras for a bargain price, but I looked anyway.  
So, much later on eBay I saw some of the ilk I desired, and cheap too I thought.  Discounting the many that said 'Please Read,' or 'For spares,' I ploughed through the offerings all the while ignoring the crazy priced items.  My eyes lit upon a prime suspect and for some hours I pondered as to whether I ought to spend money in a needless fashion, I did!  However, when I went for the thing it had gone!  
Somewhat deflated, it was cheap, missing only a battery, and I thought it worth a look.  The other suitable ones were either being bid for or were too expensive.  I pondered a wee bit, the craze of a new, wee camera upon me, and offered myself to buy one that looked good, but twice the price.  I bought and thought that was it.
As I went through the system, after having paid for my goods, I found the one I wanted still there!  They had hidden this from me.  In high dudgeon, and not mentally well, I bought that one also!  When it comes to shopping I am always in control except when I am not.  
So, my friendly postman has delivered two fine cameras, on looks at least.  Now to discover the battery I have does not fit.  Back to online shopping, battery ordered, quickly delivered.  Battery installed but no battery charger, that too is on order, as is a memory card, the ones I have are not working here!  So, day after day, in between looking for others stuff, I am spending money on myself.  This bugs me as I do not wish to do this.  At least it is second hand goods, sorry 'pre-used,' as they say now.  I am not spending hundreds on new items.  I boast about this as many professional photographers will tell you that is how they got their cameras, though of course they actually know what they are doing.
Now I have set up one of my cameras, the cheapest one, and it is not great but will do for carrying around.  The best camera can rest easy until important stuff is required.
Among the collection on view are the Russian cameras, Zenit and Zorki. These were cheap but efficient copies of other better brands and a great many of us learned photography on them.  My brother gave me a Zenit E, which cost him £5 in the 1970s, today I saw one on sale for over £200.  These cameras, dumped once digital took hold, were worth nothing for soo long, the Russian ones on view cost me around £2 each! I looked for a lens for one of them and found they could cost at least £20 and up to whatever you are willing to pay! 
I missed out on a good earner there!  


A cold icy and heartless morning is followed by the news that after a too short debate in the House MPs have voted to allow assisted suicide in the UK.  This is a disgrace!  Just as allowing abortion for the sake of a handful of women dying in backstreet abortions in 1967 so this bill will allow hundreds to die before their time under the pretence of 'care.'  
The aged and disabled, the mentally ill and those who have few friends will soon find themselves offered murder instead of care by the NHS, an NHS which is very keen on killing babies and will soon find it easy to dispose of those who are considered of no value to society.
Care and compassion replaced by an easy option with no care whatsoever. 

Monday, 25 November 2024

Monday Shopping

 


You will have heard of the petition, signed by 2 million apparently, for a General Election now!
Clearly this is Musk inspired, a quick look at the readout here reveals who exactly is signing this petition!  Musk will have his goons, and their bots working to sign up, and it is possible some of the Farage rioters, at least those not 'inside,' will also have signed.  Somewhat tersely Mr Starmer has said they will have to wait 5 years for one.   Musk has not yet commented.  However, this does indicate what outside interference in the UK will be like under Trump and his beloved.  All sorts of daft ideas, many online, most absurd, will soon be appearing and demanding answers.  I suspect they too will fall on deaf ears.


I've been browsing for Christmas presents and obtained one or two for myself.  This, I think, is good going.  I am looking for a wee camera like this one among the cheap sites, and have found a possible which is lacking a battery.  This is OK as I can obtain one cheap, or reuse an old one I have here from this broken one.  One fault is the lens jams, and while I now have info on fixing it I am not technical enough to give it a go at present.  The complicated insides means I will have a thousand wee bits all over the place and the thing worse off!
So, money is spent.
I did buy one thing for one of the kids though...


So, amongst other things I obtained a few cards online, some of which are Christmas cards, while huge gaps remain on the list.  I was glad to sit here browsing as I had been taking what is laughingly called 'exercise,' then running about Sainsbury's, struggling down into the basement for the electric meter reading (having, in block capitals informed the online query regarding 'Smart Meters' as to why they cannot work here as their engineer reported to them years ago.)  I may have been tense at the time.  I then visited the wee corner shop full of odds and sods to browse and buy cheap tins of chopped tomatoes.  After which my knees made me sit and spend vast amounts of cash through 'PayPal.'  
Christmas has only begun and already I am going out to play Bob Dylan in the High Street!   


Friday, 22 July 2022

Broken Camera


The one problem at the moment (only one?) is the wee camera.  It has been working fine but with the warm weather I have been carrying the thing in my jean pockets.  The other day I took one or two awful pictures and the lens jammed.  It would not retract, and now just sits there glaring at me.  
Whether the weather had a part in this I know not, but being jammed in the pocket is not good.  I made use of all my brute force and ignorance, but this failed this time.  
A quick search of the web brought several videos regarding repairing G11 problems, so this is good.  
I will soon attempt to play with it and maybe get it back working.  After all, when I have put my technical abilities to work elsewhere I have discovered, er, failure!  Ah well.
This is a good wee camera for £40 pounds, and no replacement is available at the cheap shop I obtained mine from.  However, by rummaging among the drawers I have found the old Leica wee'er camera that might do for now.  This was given to me by my brother when working at Leica, made up from broken camera bits!  It was good at first but will be shown up by the other cameras around now.  However as it has been lying for a while it is a bit dusty,  and I forget how to use the bits on offer.  
Still, I am not one to grumble.
I note the programme to bring Boris back into power is under way.  Watch the press carefully.


Thursday, 8 April 2021

It's a Shopping Life


This online-shopping is a good thing innit?
What with the trouble last year with 'Hermes' and deliveries I am always a bit wary when ordering online.  However, all delivery companies have expanded greatly, even 'Hermes' has improved the system and enabled decent tracking of the goods, plus asking for report on the delivery.
Today I was informed my 'DPD' driver, name given, would deliver between 9:21 & 10:21.  So I sat back happy about this, as usually they arrive around lunchtime.  In fact he was a couple of minutes early and sped on his way, a cheerful hard working driver.  He must have been up before the postmen this morning!  Yesterday 'Hermes' arrived, a couple using their car rather than a van, a cheery local working class type.  Friendly, quick and within the time given.  A vast improvement for 'hermes.'   

 
With the vast amount of money received at Xmas I bought myself a (very) cheap, (very) used little camera to shove into my pocket.  Naturally bits are missing, scruff marks abound but the Battery charger works and so does the camera, in spite of marks on the lens!  The missing bit is the connection to the laptop which is required when downloading pictures.  I have ordered a (very) cheap cable from an online shop, but there is another problem.  The 'Canon' site offers downloads for these old cameras and I brought down the user manual easily enough, but when I try for anything else it demands the serial number.  Easy-peasy, they are always on the bottom.  However, when I looked it was not on the bottom!  OO er missus!  What is a going on here?  The condition of the camera indicates a bumbling user, Boris himself perhaps, and care has not been taken.  However the missing number could have been caused by 'wear and tear' or indeed scratched off for devious reasons.  The place I bought it from is a reasonable company however, not a back street job.     
I am now wondering if the cable will connect or if I will still require software to get a connection.  There is however, a possiblity that the Windows help have a solution, this may work. If not, the only solution will be to remove the SD Card and put it into the other camera, download, and return the cards to their respective homes each time I use the thing.  
Buying 'second-hand,' sorry, 'Used,' is a great way to shop if you are happy with older stuff rather than the latest gadget, however there are always pitfalls and bits missing.  
The camera looks like it will to do the job, even if not as good as the Lumix, ideal   for carrying in the pocket.  Mind you it is heavier than it looks.  Picture quality appears OK so far, one day I will get out and look around to see what it can do.

 
There is however, normal life ahead!  Next week charity shops will open again so I can go shopping without a debit card.  So many items appear to have shrunk hanging up in the cupboard, so items, like jackets, must be inspected.
A hundred and one smaller items have either gone missing or are now required and a perusal of these shops, all eight of them here, is a must!  I suppose I ought to wait a further week or so, the number of bags being donated, including a large black one of mine, will have to be sorted first.  The days of lockdown have given many time to sort out the cupboards.  I canny wait to see the bargains awaiting me.