I got off work yesterday and my wife showed me our camera. It looked fine until I turned it on and the lcd screen was shattered and the ink that holds pixels was leaking into the interior. Not only that the shutter was no longer opening.

A fluke accident; did we sit or step on this thing?

We’re not positive, but it was working 24 hours prior the discovery.

This really bugged me. We called Kodak to see if we could get a replacement somehow, but to no avail. We were out of warranty and sending it to Kodak for a replacement would cost more than a new camera.

So we ventured forth into the cold weather that has been hitting Seattle lately, and looked at the available cameras.

Most of them are so far advanced than those that I started out with back five or six years ago. They no longer had our Kodak Easy Share camera that we previously bought on sale at Target, but they had the latest incarnation of the series. 12 Megapixels and two hundred some odd dollars later we had a new camera.

What about the old camera?

I thought for sure I could just put it up on ebay and get myself a few bucks, but nope. Broken cameras of this style don’t fetch more than a few dollars at most.

So now what?

Well, I was broke before, but now I’m really broke.

I had a small surplus from Christmas sales on ebay and amazon, but it all went away with this camera purchase.

On the other side (the greater side) I have found out that this new camera shoots pictures at 480 dpi and 12 mega pixels. Which means I can get into the stock photography game!

The new camera is a Kodak Easy Share 12 Megapixel Camera. It’s working well so far, and it shoots video in HD, which seems a bit much, but hey…it’s an upgrade.

Sorry this isn’t more exciting. I’m having an off week or something….