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Precious photos

March 16, 2008 at 4:53 pm | In Family | 4 Comments
Tags: camera, Fuji, photography

My lovely little Fuji camera went black a few weeks ago. No amount of encouragement would make the screen be anything other than slightly psychedelic. I e-mailed Fuji with a sad little plea, I didn’t hear back. Sadly I wrapped it back up in all it’s original packing and put it in my ‘I know you don’t work/fit cupboard, but I like you too much to just throw you away! Yes, I hoard. I bought a new camera, apparently it’s a better one, it has 8 pixels, my little Fuji only had 4, but those 4 were wonderful. I don’t love my new camera, it’s more fussy to use, it takes longer to snap a photo and it doesn’t re-charge, or have a docking station. Then I saw 2 camera’s, the same as mine on E-Bay, the seller didn’t know if they worked as they were part of a house clearance and he didn’t have the leads etc.I took a chance, bid and ‘won ‘them! Great excitement, hurrah I would have a little Fuji back. They arrived, neither of them worked. Now I have 3 broken Fuji’s. I e-mailed Fuji again, two different addresses, one e-mailed back and said that they would repair it for £50. I put my cameras, and all the accessories, on E-Bay, detailing their problem. People started ‘watching’.

Today we all went to the photographer’s studio to complete Son and DIL’s Christmas pressie to us all, the family portrait session. The poor photographer, 13 of us, 5 being 3 years old and under, absolute mayhem in a white studio. An hour and a half later we were finished, can’t wait to see the results of all the different combinations.

Came home and checked my e-mails, lots in the ‘junk’ folder including………..one from Fuji, asking me to send my details to them and they would repair my camera….free of charge. Happy, happy me!

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I got a new camera for my birthday last year, and I don’t love it, either. It takes forever to recharge the flash after a picture requiring flash has been taken.

I hate it when people sell things that don’t work on ebay.

Comment by Lisa — March 17, 2008 #

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Lisa – Exactly! Looks as if Fuji might come up trumps for me though (fingers crossed).
The seller on E-Bay did say that he didn’t know if they worked, I suspect he knew, but ultimately it was my decision to gamble. I’m always really honest, down to the last scratch, that way my conscience is clear.

Comment by midwifemuse — March 17, 2008 #

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I hope your camera gets up and running again soon!! I hate to be without mine. I’ve had 2 Canon Elph digitals that I love…I broke my first one and replaced it with a newer model of the same thing. I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a new camera. I just got the Casio Exilim for Christmas with 10.1 mega pixels. It takes fantastic pictures…but it’s not nearly as user friendly as the Canon. But, it’s pink….so it wins me over.

Comment by missfeebee — March 17, 2008 #

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missfeebee – I think one of the fortunate side-effects of increasing age is that I really can’t detect any difference in photo quality between my old 4 pixels and my new 8. Hubby has a Canon, 4 months on and he is still trawling through the manual. I don’t think he has taken one photo yet, me I’ll snap away at anything!

Comment by midwifemuse — March 19, 2008 #

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