Ebenezer, my Pentax Honeywell Spotmatic SLR, has served me well. I have to tell you, this is an unwelcome retirement, at least from my standpoint. I did not even make a cake. His last pictures were happy ones. Wedding ones. Outdoors, his favorite place to be.
This afternoon, I took ol' Eb to a camera shop (3rd shop attempt) to see about repair possibilities. His shutter is lodged, his rewind button is depressed, and there could be other things wrong too for all I know. No one really services or has parts for Spotmatics anymore, I guess. Today's shop refused to even send Eb away to professional repairmen. They told me there's no hope.
I'm sure I'll get a poem out of this. Ü
It's sad, but at least I've got a head start on coping. He's been out of commission since June, and a few months ago a wealthy client gave me a $300 digital camera out of the blue as a thank-you for pulling an all-nighter on a project. A very tangible reminder, if mundane and miniscule (in the big scope of things), that the Lord gives and the Lord takes away.
Posted by joydriven at November 14, 2003 01:55 PM | TrackBackI hate it when people say this because it's usually not true, but: I know what you feel.
I too had a lovely spotmatic that took me through a few great years of fully-manual photography. lots of lenses, even did my own developing, etc. Then I lent it to a friend and it came back sick. Never recovered. Same sticky shutter problem I think. So off to eBay for the whole lot.
now I've got a crappy digicam and hope to upgrade someday. maybe God will give me one like He did you.
Posted by: bobw at November 14, 2003 03:06 PM