roserouge lane

Yay, got Fuji S2 Pro back. Apparently something was wrong with the CCD and Fuji kindly replaced the component free of charge! Which is a huge relief cuz I’d been anticipating repairs would be in the range of several hundreds of dollars, plus we don’t have any warranty. I wasn’t able to talk to a technician directly so am not sure why the CCD broke down. The camera had been stored away for over a month and suddenly our pictures were turning out like this and this. O.o

Meanwhile, the Canon Powershot A85 is still at the repair shop. They estimated it would cost between $40-70 to fix the zoom and shutter release buttons. Both of these had popped out of the case when the camera was dropped on the ground…luckily it’s still able to take pictures, though with some difficulty.

On the dolly front, I finally took my BJD apart for esthetics. Got him sanded and washed. Just waiting for it to stop raining so he can be coated and blushed.

I had to swap the lenses on our cameras yesterday. Installing lens is something I don’t have much practice of doing and I forgot to do the swapping in a room that had the least amount of dust, like a bathroom. Whoops. Must remember that next time! Despite keeping cameras in their bags when not in use, we’ve had some problems with dust specks getting into the DSLR, notably on the CCD thing. We now have to edit out the spots on pretty much every photo that’s taken. If it gets any worse, probably will have to take it and the digital camcorder to a professional to have them cleaned out. The latter has a bigger blob of crap inside too but luckily that didn’t interfere with filming vacation videos. ^^;

Anyway, back to swapping lens…the manual says to match up the white line on the lens to the dot on the camera body and twist into place. On the 20mm lens the white line wasn’t as obvious. Couldn’t get it into place so gave up because I didn’t want to break anything. At least the 35-80mm one wasn’t as hard or so I thought. Turned the camera on and found the light meter flashing. Wasn’t sure if that was supposed to happen. Took pics but had some difficulty with focusing. Downloaded pics to computer and found most of them blurred. Even after resizing and running the sharpen filter twice in Photoshop the image quality still looked poor. Uh oh, did I install the lens incorrectly or something?? @_@;; Blah, gonna try again later after batteries are done charging…

It was a lower quality lens to begin with. No point in having a higher MP camera if the lens are shit. And I don’t foresee getting a better replacement anytime soon since my silly bro already splurged on two lenses this year (one met its untimely end on the pavement). Damn, if only lenses weren’t so expensive…