Breaking my Brand new Camera

Cyber Shot - Shot !!! Brand New Sony CyberShot DSC - S650 Cracks !!!:(

It was probably the second use of a brand new digital camera that I had purchased, after a manual camera with which I had struggled till then.

With parents warning and advice on how to handle, I had carried the 7.2 Mega Pixels Digital camera, with me to Delhi. It was all PhotoShoot on the way in train, we tried to experiment the effect of light on to all possible crap, right from a dirty chappels to crowded station, trying to zoom into the vendor selling guava(may be Discovery's documentary was in our minds) to ailing old lady in remote village, we even tried to capture the speeding train on other tracks and had plans of making a full lenght movie of our journey.

Successfully we reached Delhi, had the camera used to its full potential, may be only a little less than maximum possible potent. It was time to get back to Chennai. We had just reached the New Delhi Railway station. I clicked the Last Snap on the Camera in its original Condition, Sunil Posing with his Family. The train started, we were in our seats. It was quite late in the evening, just a few minutes for the sun to set, we decided to buy a drink and snack, all three started towards the canteen (the pantry), while getting up from the seats, I had a thought of keeping it in the Zip (of bag), fearing Theft or may be lazyness or dont know what, I carried the camera with me. We went to the pantry, only to be driven away by those personnels - who were busy packing food, claiming it was dinner time and they would open the shop latter. In a hurry we were marching towards our berth, may be the speeding train changed tracks or may be some Electromagnetic force attracted me or may be my mind was captured by somebody or may be i lost balance due to mis balance in air pressure of the atmosphere.. weird.. some reason, i dashed the side berth of the pantry car, to hear a "creek", I guessed it right. It was My New Camera. I didn't investigate the camera but had made enough signs of the camera breaking to both my partners, until I reached the berth. I removed the camera, the metal portion of it which kissed my thigh was intact a sigh of relief (i was not aware of what i would see behind), I turned the camera to see exactly what I didn't want to see. The Glass of the screen was broken, I switched on the Camera to get the second shock, the LCD of the camera too was broken. (NOTE: the Digital camera has a covering glass and inside it the LCD.). I tried clicking the camera, lucky I was, the camera flashed, I tried that two to three times, and latter even It stopped functioning. With the Dead Camera with me, I quitely kept it back on the box, We were discussing on what to be done further. We were planning to Fix the camera without telling my Parents or atleast accessing the damage costs, within minutes I changed my mind, I realised It was an Accident and I need not fear to tell anything to my most loved ones in this world.

Well things were smooth at home, far smoother than what I had expected, I realised My parents understand me better. I enquired Sony Service for repair, I had those Service coupons, they calculated and brought a total cost of around 8000/- Rupees with one month service time.(Guys the cost of the Camera I Had purchased was 10,000/-) This was another Shock.

Then I had no option but to keep that camera as a showcase piece - something that my father had suggested in anger. I took the piece (DSC=S650) to Delhi on our second journey we made (for our Final year project). There I managed finding a Digital Camera service shop in Cannaught Place. They fixed my camera from parts of other broken camera/s - and charged me a sum of 2,400 /- and to replace the front glass cover of the model (DSC - s650 or DSC-s659) they charged me another 400/- rupees. A Total Sum of 2,800/- I spent - I paid - I wasted, Just because I ignored the shopkeepers advice of getting a cover, Just because I carried the camera without keeping it in its proper place (in the bag), Just because I was careless.

Atleast You Be !!