rip, little camera

This is absurd to be sad about. I have (had) an old Canon Elph from like 2002. It's exactly the size of my hand. And sure, I suppose it was wildly outdated (getting what at the time was an astonishing 4MP in such a tiny camera). It was a gorgeous little piece of design - I actually once used it to photograph itself, sitting in MOMA's "everyday things" display.

It died about 2 months ago, and when I emailed the Canon people they offered to fix my 6 year old camera for free. Which is totally awesome, and a thing I tried to point out to Panasonic after it took 3 months to get help on my video camera, which they'll now consider repairing for $100 plus shipping. Someone at Panasonic really needs to buy a Canon something and then need service. You don't know you suck until you see how much better someone else can do what you do.

The Canon, though. They didn't fix it! They sent me a Powershot somethingsomething. It's big! And round! Apparently it does more stuff, but the design is unintuitive so I'm unlikely to realize what it does (I don't believe in manuals). It's still very swell of them to take care of it, and blahblahblah not looking a gift camera in the mouth. But I wanted mine!