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Have you ever lost a camera?

Joseph C Hinson

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December 10th, 2014 - 10:07 AM

Have you ever lost a camera?

I was surfing the web and came across this somewhat funny (though not meant to be) post about losing a camera.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3674998#forum-post-53726506

It got me to thinking. I used two film Rebels for many years when I shot more than I do today. (Quanity, if not quality, of shots anyway.) I replaced one with an Elan 7 and then decided to sell both Rebels. I later replaced the Elan 7 with the first Digital Rebel, or 300D. I initially let my sister-in-law borrow the Elan 7 since she did not have a camera and had just given birth. I kinda regretted this decision thinking I would loveto still be able to shoot slides, but when she returned the camera after going digital, I literally shot one roll of film before realizing and remembering why I hated shooting film so much.



(My Elan 7 with an old roll of film I found, unexposed.

The 300D was a good camera and a lot of my images here were taken by it, but it finally died on me and was replacedby a Canon XTi. With the advances of the Canon 60D, I decided to once again have two bodies and this is where the title of the thread comes in. I decided to stop taking both bodies out with me every time I took my gear. I had this fear of having my bag stolen and being left with only one crap lens and the Elan 7 at home. So during a move, the camera was somehow lost. My son was using it some as was my wife, but this was two years ago and the camera is still missing. No one knows where it is. Lost. Gone.

I think about this camera a lot when I'm out shooting frantically trying to repace a lens from long to short as a train approaches. Or when i want to shoot video as well as stills. It irritates me to no end to think that somewhere there is my XTi wondering where I am.

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