Third time lucky

                                        


Camera number three in almost as many weeks. But it has felt like years.
The photograph above is not my new camera, but my old SLR, the one I cannot part with. It is the one that saw me through rainy days on Lindisfarne, being snowed up in a pub in Whitby. Walks along the River Wear in early morning in the search for that illusive shot, the benches along the coast line at Roker beach, the dunes at Bamburgh. Student darkroom days, developed black and white prints stolen as they left to dry. I do hope someone is enjoying my best shot of that boat carcass on the deserted beach last seen drying in a studio in Newcastle. The photograph has also been published with a story in The Busker : Poetry and Story Anthology . The camera now sits in the house as an ornament a testament to my student days.

Then I moved onto a Lumix that saw me through my current creative phase of writing, blogging and making cards. Sadly it was dropped and the little pink camera is no more.
A dabble with a Sony WX300, lovely pictures but a little problem with colour that turned into a big problem.
So back it went and the same model came home with me again and guess what? Same old problem. So now I had to consider was the problem with me? I am told that the colour definition on the screen is not the same as that which prints out. But actually I cannot work that way. I need to see on the screen the same colour as I see with my eyes. So after a melt down in the shop, with alarms going off every time I picked up a camera to try and the ones I was interested in having no battery I left with a refund to do what I always should have done , that is to visit a real camera shop. So armed with a shaky resolve and a pink scarf I went to Red Box Cameras in Tunbridge Wells and explained my situation. Not sure if they are used to mad women demanding an exact colour match to clothing to be visible on the screen .But they helped me in a considerate way and assured me that they were used to stupid questions, in fact they specialized in them.

So camera number three is a Panasonic FZ62 Lumix and it is charging up as I type. Normal service will be resumed when I have played with the camera and am happy with the results. But suffice to say I have found being without a camera that I am happy with rather upsetting. In my mind's eye are the shots I have lost. I just hope that in a few weeks I can report that I have found the camera for me and that this time it will not be dropped.

Conclusion is , I do not handle change very well. Do many people?