{"id":235,"date":"2008-08-24T22:26:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T22:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notnick.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2008-08-24T22:36:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T22:36:35","slug":"pappa-got-a-brand-new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Pappa got a brand new camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly a year ago for my birthday, Deird got me a new camera. It was a canon EOS400D “Digital Rebel”- (Why digital rebel I’m not really sure- how buying the most popular entry level digital SLR is rebellious wasn’t in the instruction manual) anyway, the camera was good- but, well, had a fault.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Every now and again it would lock up- and the only way to unlock it was remove the battery. Not great, because even entry level SLRs aren’t cheap. (Single Lens Reflex in case you were wondering)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I took it back to John Lewis- where I bought it. They sent it to Canon, and 3 weeks later, the camera was returned to me. It locked up on the very first shot I took with it- so back to Canon it went. It came again back yesterday, and I picked it up. And, to check it, I tried taking a photo in the store. It locked up. I bitched and moaned enough that rather than send it off for a 3rd time, they replaced it for a new model.<\/p>\n

The sales assistant replaced it for the newer model- (12 mega-pixel, not 10) telling me that they no longer made the model camera I’d originally bought. So, I walked out of the store with a \u00a0nice new shiny camera- an EOS450. Thanks Mr Sales Assistant.<\/p>\n

The odd thing is, when I looked at the camera sales desk as I left, they still had EOS400’s (my old camera) on the shelf. I don’t get it- but thanks mr sales guy. Really nice of you…\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway- here’s a couple of photos from the new camera.<\/p>\n