A few months later, he confessed to me that he had lost the camera and been afraid to tell me. Before I could tell him I didn't care, I saw that he was holding out a box to me...with another camera, one he had bought to replace the Panasonic.
The replacement camera was a Samsung SL50. It didn't look like much, just your standard, consumer-grade point & shoot. It occurred to me to hold it against him that he didn't replace my camera with the same exact one, but then, I wasn't real happy with the old one anyway, remember? So, I didn't really care that I was down a point & shoot camera, but since I had a new one, I figured I may as well play with it.
The SL50 was smaller and thinner than my lost Panasonic. I quickly discovered that it shoots great video (which I never use) and that the image settings were more sophisticated and versatile. Soon, to my surprise, I was actually using it pretty regularly.
When I took a trip back to Massachusetts in August, the SL50 fit nicely in my camera bag. The day after I got to Boston, I ended up going out for a sunset cruise on a friend's boat; it was one of those serendipitous occasions when people who were usually busy with their lives had no plans. I had brought my Rebel 2000, but couldn't find film to load in it, so by default, I used the SL50 to take the following pictures. They have had very little, if any, touch-ups.
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--DR
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