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Quite often, I include pictures along with whatever I’m blogging about, but that’s going to have to pause for a while, because The Camera<\/a> is going into the shop. It’s 4 years old, and I’ve shot hundreds of rolls of film with it, so I suppose it’s about time for a tuneup.<\/p>\n

But I’ll miss it while it’s away.<\/p>\n

I realized, this morning, when I’d finished speaking with the factory repair people, that I love this camera. It’s strange, to love a thing<\/b>. I don’t know that I’ve had the experience before, except, perhaps, for my violin, and that’s kind of … different.<\/p>\n

The camera provides me with a challenge, in that it’s got many more options than I’ve ever used, and can somehow keep on giving me new things to know, each and every time I paw through the manual. And, yes, I still have the manual … and the original sales receipt.<\/p>\n

So, today it’s going in the post, and I’ll be relying on the … digital camera. Sigh.<\/p>\n


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Quite often, I include pictures along with whatever I’m blogging about, but that’s going to have to pause for a while, because The Camera is going into the shop. It’s 4 years old, and I’ve shot hundreds of rolls of film with it, so I suppose it’s about time for a tuneup. But I’ll miss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}