camera woes
I finally got my camera to a camera store downtown that Jayne spotted a few months ago...turns out that it wasn't the battery. The guy put another one in, and it still didn't work. He even cleaned the contact points for the battery, and that didn't help. Since he couldn't do anything else with it, he showed me 2 options that he could help with (admittedly, not the only ones though).
1. Send the camera out to be repaired. Apparently it's a flat-rate for "point shoot" types like mine, and he thought it would be around $60-70 dollars. Which is more than I paid for the camera itself when I bought it on sale at Ames on 10% for 55 people day, just about 2 years ago.
2. Purchase a new camera similar to the one I had (Vivitar 38-110 mm zoom, date a print, red-eye reduction, flash on or off options, and a few other things). While the guy didn't have my exact one, the Vivitar models with less zoom were only $10 more than it would be to repair mine, and the model with a better zoom was about twice as much as repairs.
I really like this camera, but I don't know if getting repairs is worth it when I can get a new camera for just about the same price instead. Or if I want to buy a new 35mm camera, just to use up the 10 rolls of film I have in my desk drawer, when I could buy a digital camera instead. And what about the 2 new batteries I bought for this camera, when I thought all it needed was new batteries when it broke in February.....
What do people think?
Off to the Farmer's Market now, then back to the apartment to sleep, since I worked all night last night and haven't slept yet!
1. Send the camera out to be repaired. Apparently it's a flat-rate for "point shoot" types like mine, and he thought it would be around $60-70 dollars. Which is more than I paid for the camera itself when I bought it on sale at Ames on 10% for 55 people day, just about 2 years ago.
2. Purchase a new camera similar to the one I had (Vivitar 38-110 mm zoom, date a print, red-eye reduction, flash on or off options, and a few other things). While the guy didn't have my exact one, the Vivitar models with less zoom were only $10 more than it would be to repair mine, and the model with a better zoom was about twice as much as repairs.
I really like this camera, but I don't know if getting repairs is worth it when I can get a new camera for just about the same price instead. Or if I want to buy a new 35mm camera, just to use up the 10 rolls of film I have in my desk drawer, when I could buy a digital camera instead. And what about the 2 new batteries I bought for this camera, when I thought all it needed was new batteries when it broke in February.....
What do people think?
Off to the Farmer's Market now, then back to the apartment to sleep, since I worked all night last night and haven't slept yet!