Life of a Camera
The best photo's are usually the ones which are the worst for your camera. Going clubbing and tagging your camera along is a fantastic way to recall what happened that night, as chances are, you probably won't remember when you wake up.
The camera will travel with you in the car, getting huge vibrations bouncing on it from the sound speakers. It will then be shoved in a small handbag for safekeeping. When the bouncer asks you for your ID, your camera will play bumper cars with your wallet, sunglasses, make up kit, keys, and all other hard, sharp objects as you toss it about the place trying to find your drivers license.
Once in the Club, it will be yanked out into the unknown. As you extend you hand as far a way from yourself and your group of friends who are huddling around, smiling, your camera will be at the other end, like a box on a crane. It will be vulnerable and open to anyone bumping into it, or knocking their drink, because they didn't see your hand.
During the night it will be shoved in and pulled out of your handbag probably about twenty times, for every memorable moment of the night. Friends who liked each and finally hooked up will be shot, someone falling over or slipping in unknown substance will be shot, people taking shots will be shot, it just never ends.
Taking a camera with on holiday is also ideal. For the entire journey it will make friends with your shoes, toiletry bag, jeans and other items. It will then become very close friends with them, when you turn around a sharp corner and your luggage falls over. On the actual holiday, depending on where you go, it will be exposed to all types of things.
Bumpy safari rides during the day, dust by night or variations of sand from beach to river. It will be exposed to direct rays of light as it sits on the passengers seat, or your baby will chew it while you listen to the tour guide. While you are having a picnic either some strange dog might run off, or ants and other unidentified bugs will crawl all over it. These are all occupational hazards for your camera.
Even day-to-day life of sitting at the bottom of a bag, integrating with grit that has collected there is a life-threatening moment for it. Eventually strange noises will come, as the zoom lens doesn't quite make it out. The springs will grind against dirt from the club, the confetti from the wedding or the sand from the desert.
Bits and pieces will work their way into the mechanism and card errors will show up. Reminders of downloading the images will become more of a warning as both you and the camera sense that your time together has come to an end, unless it has already died from being accidentally dropped into the toilet bowl, or having champagne sloshed all over it from the party.
The chances of a camera having a long life span are slim. The memory card will survive though and with the help of professionals, the images can be revived. Your camera's sacrifice will be worth it as you browse through looking at photo's of your life, yourself, your friends and family and some where your camera will be thinking it was worth it.
by Celeste Y
Keyword : Life of a Camera
