In eager anticipation of rejoining the world of camera-havers (I don't even have a cell phone cam at the moment) I have been setting up new accounts and getting stuff loaded up. I am not even getting a real camera for a while - I have been saving up to get the one that I desire (Nikon D300) since my old camera broke about 6 months ago. At the moment even my cell phone won't take pictures, I have a BlackBerry 8830 (world edition), but that will change in another day or two when my new BlackBerry Storm arrives and I will have a cell phone camera that even has a flash!
It will likely be MONTHS if not YEARS before I get my camera unless magical elves buy it from my wedding registry (we even put it up there - HA!) and send it to me. But I am holding out hope that at least the cell phone camera will get me back to taking pictures, I have felt like I am missing an appendage for months now. Especially with me not working I see things I want to take pictures of every day. And before my cousin Linda can remind me, I know I should probablyy just have gone out and bought a cheap digital to get me through until I couldafford to replace my old camera but I am weird about buying things for myself (generally) and have a hard time justifying spending 100 on something when I am saving up to buy something else. Granted, I could buy 18 $100 dollar cameras for what I am willing to spend on the Nikon... who knows, maybe I will crack and get myself a used D80 off of ebay or something...
So, in the spirit of all that I have been setting up my flickr, making sure I have the latest version of Picasa etc. I was telling my husband about my activities this morning and he looked at me like I was an idiot. The following was our exchange:
Isaac: Um... why haven't you asked me to lend you my camera to use?
Me: Cause it is your's and you are so protective of it and you said that there was something wrong with it anyway.
Isaac: That is silly, of course you can use it. It is just totally manual right now and a bit irritating.
Me: I like manual, that is fine. Is that all that is wrong with it?
Isaac: The battery needs to be charged.
Me: Ok, I'll charge it then. Give me the camera!
So now, I get to start using my hubby's Nikon D100 for the next little while and between that and the much more portable (and not manual) cell phone camera I should be posting photos that aren't' a million years old soon! Happy day indeed! Also, laughing at the husband over the fact that he has barely used his very nice camera for almost a year based on it "being broken" when in fact the auto-focus just isn't working. When we talked about that more he told me that allhe has really been waiting to take pictures of for the past year is our dogs and trying to get them to stay still long enough to manually focus the SLR was not possible - hence his not using it. I am also laughing at myself - Isaac and I have long had a problem with making assumptions about what the other thinks, wants, needs, is interested in / in doing, said etc and this causes us to miss out on a lot of stuff. I had just assumed that Isaac wouldn't want me to use his camera so to avoid being irritated by him saying no I never asked. If I had, I would have been shooting photos for months now and not feeling so irritatingly without a creative outlet!
While I am off running other errands today I will be picking up a new memory card for it. I figure by the time I get home the battery will be charged and I can start taking photos again!
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