I still have not purchased a a nice DSLR and based on what happened last weekend at the river, I probably shouldn’t.  For starters, I have had two cameras: a water proof one and another one.  Both cameras have issues.  One has spots and speckles on it, probably from taking it to the beach or desert or something; the other has a black fade coming up from the bottom, probably from where water got into the photo sensor (water proof my ass).  So already, I’ve broken my cameras but am still using them cause I’ve had them for what a year, maybe a bit longer.  This last weekend, we went to float the river (the Guadalupe).  I brought my water proof camera and was taking some awesome shots.  The water was pretty low for the most part and you had to pull your butt up over the rapids to keep from scraping your ass.  Good times, good abs work out too 

Anyway, at one point, I was rearranging my bag o stuff, when I accidentally set my camera down on my stomach and leaned to one side.  Bloop.  There it went without any sort of floaty or anything attached to it of course.  I figured I could just jump in for it and swim to the shallow bottom.  Although the entirety of the trip thus far had been shallow water, somehow I drop my camera in the deepest part of the river.  It was atleast 30 feet deep, maybe deeper.  I didn’t make it to the bottom on the first two tries and then took a deep breath and went all teh way down, running my hands along the slime of the seaweed carpeted bottom.  Beer can, beer can, beer can, gatorade bottle, beer can.  No camera.  I went down one more time, but still nothing.  So my camera was lost, which is not so big a loss to me as the pictures which were in it; thankfully however it was only of that day and no other pics were lost.

I got over it quickly and had a great time tubing.  Spokes, my roommate, was more upset about the sunglasses he lost.  He had just gotten them the day before and it was his birthday.

In short, I lose and break cameras ALOT!  A $200 camera I can get over, especially if I’ve had it for a year or so, but a $1000 camera with who knows how expensive lenses?!  To lose that, oh man, that would suck.  So I’m still not sure a DSLR is for me, that being said however, I’ve just thought of a fantastic idea.  Perhaps I’ll purchase one while I’m in Australia.  Even though it’s an import, it might be cheaper there.

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