How it began 2.

Sequel of the short story about how I became addicted to this wonderful hobby from here:
http://lensjunkie.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-it-began-1.html

After taking number of pictures with the good old Praktica machine - which is still in a working condition! man these stuff can go with you for a lifetime! - I've had to change photo-lab to develop the negative rolls.
(I've never became that obsessive to play around with chemicals in a darkroom - shame on me, I know. :-))
The old company worked way great, but it was simply too far from my location after came out from high school. So I went for one in a great shopping mall...


Turned out it was a bad idea: got back a completely transparent roll saying 'probably it was wrongly slipped into the camera'. Wrongly slipped, yes, surely. All the other 13-15 rolls were fine, right along from the first to the last, but this very one roll? Only difference that it was processed in different place than all others?
Maybe I should have make an official complaint, write a letter to manager, yell, etc. But anyway: does it make any good? Even if the guy admits the mistake, what can they offer? An empty new roll? In the value of ~2-4 $ in that time?
But will he go back to the countryside where I took those pictures and do for me, same place, same lights? Definitely no.

One great lesson I drew from the case: time to move digital. It was around 2000 or 2001 so anyway, the price of digital cameras (useful featured and resolution ones I mean not those early half-laptop-size 640x480 devices!) were dropping.
That time, I was working for a small re-seller company and - thanks God (and Peti :-)) I got a good tip from our purchase-management colleague about arrival of new Nikon models. In nutshell, that's the way I got my good old Nikon Coolpix 2200 for less than the predecessor 2100 model.
Wasn't exactly comparable with any SLR by the services it gave - not a big surprise being a compact camera.
But on the other hand, with a digital cam - any of those - you have an instant feedback about what you're doing: whether it be good or bad.

Regarding its quality (talking about a 2Mp machine with small integrated 3x zoom lens): decide yourself. All the pictures of this post were shot with it.

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