Camera Down!

On Wednesday, I mentioned my plans to go to Philadelphia. I had several goals in mind. I met one of them, and then in a twist of fate, made a wrong decision and messed up my poor camera.

Here's what happened: I'd gone down to Penn and taken 200 pictures. My initial plan was to go to my hotel room, load the pictures on to my camera, and head back out. Instead, I found myself standing on Walnut Street Bridge, trying to replace my memory card with a larger one. I thought I could save myself some time, swap the cards, and go do my Philly buildings at night shots.

It didn't work out that way. :( I snapped off one of the heads in my SD card holder, rendering my camera useless. Fortunately, this happened to the empty card, not the full one with all of my pictures. At least I had a memory card backup strategy - it could have been much worse. I learned that lesson in Hawaii in 2005, when I lost my camera. All of my amazing pictures, gone. :( I still get upset every time I think about it.

I took the camera to Penn Camera. Prognosis - 6 week repair time, 255 dollars. Considering that I've owned cameras for 7 years without an incident, I can handle this. It happens. However, the next time I try to do anything with my camera, I'll try to do so seated - and I'll pay attention.

I did end up acquiring a backup plan from Penn Camera. More on that tomorrow. I'll also try to upload the pictures tomorrow, too. I'll need a card reader, but I can pick that up pretty easily, I think.

Till tomorrow!