Question for camera people - Pics in post #40

[jennielynn1970]

Well, I went to the camera shop today. Let's just say I received some very disapproving looks for the state that the camera is in! I can't help it my father decided to let it in a box, open in the basement. I tried to explain, but they all looked at me like it was me making excuses, lol. Oh well.

So, from what they said, as they tsk-tsk'd at the camera and the one pro came over to look at it, was that it's basically shot. There are pieces breaking off on the camera itself. Not sure what or why, but there are little thingies that are coming off. Then the mirror on the camera (mirror??) is scratched all to heck. The lens is next to destroyed as well. Scratches on the outside, crap on the inside. He doesn't know how the stuff got in there, but it's pretty much destroyed.

They can TRY to repair it, but we'd be looking at over $500 to do that, if they can. So... I guess it can sit on a shelf to be looked at for another few decades. They don't take trade ins normally, and especially not in the shape that it's in.

Oh well.

At least I found out things about my own camera that I didn't know on here, lol. I'll have to dig out the downloading stuff and do that with the pics tonight. Right now I'm beat from running around the city all afternoon and dealing with traffic and mobs of people (went to the mall to have my cell checked out... what a mistake!).

[Catlady711]

It's a bummer they can't even take it as a trade in for a couple bucks.

The mirror is what you would basically look at when shooting the pix, when you take the pix it flips up out of the way to expose the film. Mirrors are kinda expensive to replace and a pain in the rear to look at if they're scratched. If the camera was in the basement then it probably has some mold or something inside the camera, which is expensive and darn near impossible to completely remove. Yup sounds like a souvenier to me.

Don't be surprised that cameras decrease alot in value. They're kinda like computers as far as resale value goes, only goes down.

Yesterday I was at my camera store and in the used dept. they had the first SLR camera body I ever bought. I originally bought it for $400, they were selling it for $149! Right next to it was the Elan, the one I drooled over that I couldn't afford when I got mine. It was only selling for a measly $20 more, and I know at the time I got mine the price difference was more like $8-900. That's why you always buy the best you can afford that will do basically what you need it to do, and just enjoy it as long as you want to, regardless of how much/little it cost or what it's resale value is/was.