The Passing of a Good Friend

With heavy heart dear readers, I am sad to announce the untimely passing of my digital friend – the Canon Powershot G1. Oh the sadness that has befallen me. My partner in crime, my most trusted sidekick, has passed on to the scenic heavens. I am now without any digital means to capture the daily panoramas of life’s great stories.

I feared this day would come. About a month ago, I heard a mysterious rattling inside the camera, an important piece of machinery had broken free from its moorings and was drifting aimless about the cavity of the camera. From that point on things degenerated rapidly. Two weeks ago, the camera lost all control of its ability to zoom. I pleaded, I nurtured, but I was powerless to negotiate the matter, the camera just refused to see things close up. It only wanted to stroll about on the periphery and see things from afar. Then, just yesterday, while attempting to take a picture of my fancy new haircut, it locked up completely. In the final moments, it made helpless whining sounds as if it were struggling to break free from some internal blockage. And then, my friends, it died.

Oh yes I will grieve. I will remember fondly all the great adventures we had and all the things we saw. Over the years I have grown very accustom to having the camera by my side. And now, with its passing not yet a day old, I find my life a little bit empty. And that’s why I got to find a replacement for the Canon G1. Fast. There are just too many adventures coming up that need to be properly documented in full living color. I must not dwell on the past. I shall move quickly to the future. The only question remains: what will be the next camera?

The main reasons the G1’s life was cut short was mainly do to my constant abuse of the camera. To put it rather bluntly, It’s safe to say I was downright cruel. I tossed it around. I stuck it bike bags completely unprotect. I shoved it in cargo pockets that were already filled with keys and phones. I have only myself to blame. The G1 is a rather large camera, not the SUV size of a Canon EOS but it’s not a portable camera like, say, the Canon Elph. Unfortunately, I treated it like a portable camera and in doing so hastened its demise.

So now the dilemma of what to buy. For me it boils down to portability versus flexibility. Do I go with the sleek portability of something like the Elph that would allow my to have a small and accessible camera constantly at my fingertips – ready for rapid fire snapping – or, do I graduate to the more versatile and flexible EOS. A camera that would give me a greater aperture on the world and the ability to develop my photography skills beyond the simple automatic point and shoot. Of course the price differential is quite large.

Until that decision is made, and I am once again able to snap freely, I fear these pages could be a bit text heavy.