Taking a break from contemplating Canon[Day131]*

I'm upset!

 

Last July for my seventeenth birthday my Mom purchased me my Canon XT Rebel. It has been a treat having such a beautiful camera until NOW. Basically my camera ALWAYS gives me an ERROR 99 [a lens error] I’ve put the lens back on back off, had other photographers put it back on. Still repeatedly gives me the error. So the other day, I pop into Best Buy [I wish I would have got it somewhere else but there is no where else around in Minnesota, my Mom likes seeing it in person before buying it or I’d buy online]. I have a four year warranty mind you. They kidnap my camera away from me, my heart breaks. They say the battery is dead. I point stretching my arm out that the battery IS NOT dead. I looked at them clueless and with heart break. My camera is like a sibling for me. I take care of it; I take it everywhere, etcetera. I have nothing else that compares the relationship of the one I have with my camera. They find nothing wrong that they can fix in the store. They say that they can send it away for a month or two, most likely more because of the summer season. I look disappointed and take my camera back. I grunt my way out the door, reminding myself why I’d always been a Nikon girl. But I was a trader; I changed because the Nikon DSLR didn’t fit my hand correctly. The whole ten minute ride home from Best Buy I reminded myself of the mistake I made picking a Canon.

 

I am at the turning point where I possibly plan on selling my XT. But then I remember I got a boat load of accessories. Not hard for selling, but still, I don’t want to deal with the hassle. I just want a camera that functions. I got my point and shoot but when I’m planning on starting a photo business this summer, this doesn’t look good. My heart is breaking over this. I’m so torn what to do. Worst part is my friends who have the identical camera with a TWO year warranty basically just got handed an XTi when they took it in and complained about the problem. Whatever, I’m just depressed over this. Photography is my life and I’ve never been this close on giving up. I am not a quitter but when something this drastic happens I rethink if I am really making the right choice.

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Happy FUTAB Friday!

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