Sunday, September 06, 2009
A widdle pun for ya
There are many things to get used to for us foreigners who've moved to Britain. For example, the first time I walked into a British photo shop years ago, I picked up a couple of films, a photo album, and as an afterthough, a disposable camera. The clerk tilled it up and told me the price. I said: "Ouch, that's rather expensive, isn't it?" And he answered: "the camera adds ten pounds".
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Notice that even this story has you buying yet another camera....
Oh heck, ten pounds is not too much for a joke. :-)
But I admit to recurring nightmares that when I die and they open the door to this apartment, cameras will spill out in a big flood.
Are you using all your cameras ?
Aniko,
That sound's like you're freeloading, trying to get a less used camera from this guy. Tut tut.
;-) (BFG)
No, I couldn't use them all. For one thing, many of them are antiques bought for decoration. (Well, not antiques, but from 1960-80.)
But also, though they all have their own strong points, there's necessarily too much overlap. To bring both a Nikon D90 and a Canon 500D for example would be a bit superfluous. (Although you could fit one with a wide lens, and the other with a telezoom, so you don't have to switch lenses.)
(Note: many of the old cameras could still take fine pictures, don't get me wrong. It's just that I really can't be bothered these days with getting film developed and scanned.)
You should have bought a video camera. They say television adds twenty pounds. The extra ten pounds? A bargain, methinks...
... I have just now admitted publicly (in the comments to the post here) to having a... habit.
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