Role reversal

The camera as a subject. This is a bit of a filler blip. Sorry!

When in October 2006 we got burglared, besides the feeling of intrusion I got, I wasnt really upset. It's just *things* after all, easily replaced. Apart from 1 thing...

My Canon A1 had been my first and only proper camera and I had taken it in deserts, up mountains, on week long hikes (and it *was* heavy) and more. It was well loved, well used, and still working perfectly. I would have *bought* it back from them!

This wasnt just a camera, it was my whole photographic history, all the learning, memories. I knew it in my fingers! And it would have kept going forever (one of the best cameras Canon ever built). To some of us cameras are more emotional objects than makes sense!

There really ought to be a special hell for people who steal cameras!

So to make some good out of a bad thing, in November 2006 I decided that, since all my film kit had been stolen, I would finally buy a digital SLR. Researched and set my mind on a particular model.

In January 2008 I finally bought the camera I had decided on in November 2006. First I had to wait for the insurance money to come through, then I also had to take my time, make sure I really wanted it and would use it.

So here it is, and I can only hope I get as much out of it as I got out of my A1. I have a lot to learn about it first. And I love it :)

After all this isnt just a camera, this is my photographic history, to be continued.

To future memories!

Taken with my fujifilm f47, a replacement for the fujifilm F10 which was also stolen that day. Did I mention that special hell?