My Konica Minolta Has Been Brought Back To Life
Posted by mamie ami on July 8, 2008
Hooray!! I want to dance the dance of Joy! My old digicam has been given a second chance at life and with this is the revival of my photography career minus the thousands of pesos needed to buy a Nikon D40.
You see, I bought my Konica Minolta Dimage Z20 through a friend in 2005. It has given me enough satisfaction and lots of memories especially of my children’s life in school. Late last year, the Canon Powershot camera of the office broke which affected my efficiency because my work in the research and documentation unit. Being the NGO that we were, we can not immediately buy a new one so I had to use my own for official shots. On March this year, I wanted to prepare a photo blog about the Holy Week and the fiesta in our town in Nueva Ecija… alas, the poor digicam refused to light up. I was so devastated I actually mourned its demise in my facebook account. I was worried that the lens might have broke and that was as good as buying a brand new one instead of having it fixed. That was the case of our Canon camera. The lens was busted and buying a new lens cost around 12 thousand pesos. I was already thinking, “Now I have to work extra to buy myself a new one.”
When my Konica broke, we missed good photos of the kids graduation and my eldest daughter’s 7th birthday. We also missed taking good photos of my kid’s graduation as a kiddie crew of McDonalds. I had to satisfy myself with photos taken with my Motorola celfone.
A week ago, I had the chance to go to Quezon City and I thought, why not pass by Hidalgo Street in Manila to have my camera fixed. I told the lady at the repair shop to just diagnose the digicam and wait for my signal before repairing it. She said, diagnosis costs P150 while labor (if it has to be fixed) costs P1,500 plus the costs of the needed parts.
I called them this morning and guess what? The damage was minor. She said something about replacing an IC, I assumed it was for the power (the camera’s diagnosis was it was DEAD SET: no power). The part that has to be replaced is only P400 and with the labor it’s only about P2K.
So, again, I dance the dance of joy. I don’t need to buy a new point and shoot camera (which I was already tempted to do) and more importantly, I can be assured of documenting my kids’ school activities and other family celebrations until I earn enough to buy my own DSLR.
July 9, 2008 at 1:40 am
I had an Olympus CZ2040 here, which I bought back in 2002. I have taken thousands of photographs with it. Although Smart Media cards are getting harder to come by, and it was only a 2MP camera, it took a decent photograph.
Until a friend knocked it clean off the table at home, and broke it. Not worth getting it fixed, and I was looking to buy another camera, when my mother, who has purchased a little pocket size camera, offered me her Dimage Z20. Now, too, I can save up some more money, and buy the DSLR I really want and not another point and shoot replacement!