New camera, yadda yadda yadda, test shots, blah blah Audi.

"Desu-San-Desu" (Desu-San-Desu)
05/28/2014 at 00:05 • Filed to: None

So the girlfriend is cleaning out her shelves and she hands me a box of cables and random old electronics. Old phones, USB type-B cables, obsolete chargers, etc. Stuff that she has no use for. But down in the bottom is what looks to me like a pretty decent little digital camera. It's a Canon SX120 IS. Not a DSLR by any means, but still was a pretty decent camera a few years back and nothing to sneeze at now.

As some of you know, the rear facing camera on my smartphone died about 6 months ago and any photos I've taken since then have been with the front-face 'selfie' camera. I've been making it work, but it's far from ideal. So I asked her why the Canon was in the box of junk electronics. She said it was broken. I asked how so. She said the lens wouldn't open. "Ok..." I replied and then began the fiddling.

After finding some AA batteries I confirmed that yes, the lens cover was seized. A business card and about 5 minutes of swiping and sliding later, it was fixed. Since she uses her phone for photos like everyone else does these days, she told me I could use the Canon now that it was working again. So, I popped an SD card in it and decided to fire some test shots out. Most of them were of our cat and thus were blurry. Others were just garbage from testing out the settings. But while grabbing some tools out of the Audi later in the day, I realized the lighting outside was quite nice and decided to snap a few test shots of Herr Quattro.

The view out my back porch. I've started parking in the back lately and I quite like it.

The girlfriend decided to snap a candid shot of me after I finished putting the tools back in the Audi's trunk. I almost feel like it needs an explosion in the background for me to walk away from or something.