R.I.P Digital Cameras

“Point and Shoot” digital cameras are a total must-have for everyone these days. Especially with websites like flickr, webshots, facebook, photobucket, and myspace, sharing photos and capturing moments from events have become extremely popular. I carry my camera with me everywhere, and that’s probably why I break mine, all the time.

My first tiny digital camera that I used like crazy was one I got when I was 17. It was a tiny pink Casio camera that I bought at Akihabara in Japan. I thought it was the coolest thing ever because in 2003, they didn’t have pink digital cameras in the U.S. yet, so I was so stoked to come back to L.A. with a pink digital camera.

2003 - 2004 Casio Z50

It looked like this one. That camera went through a lot! I used it my freshman year of college, so the camera went through all of my crazy freshman year adventures. I went to college in San Diego, and the party scene was huge! I remember when my camera fell at Safari Nightclub in Tijuana, Mexico, fell down a dirty mountain at a Ranch house party, Fallen inside classrooms and shuttle buses, tossed around in different purses, clutches. Basically what happened was I dropped it so much the corner started to split then it started to make a crazy noise and one day it just stopped taking normal photos.

Casio Exilim White 2004-2006

Then I had this white one, since I thought pink may be bad luck and white looked clean and appealing at the time. I stuck with the same brand (Casio) since I was familiar with its functions. This one I also took to different outings, clubs, events, parties, and tons of trips, but it was one of those cameras where the lens comes out when u turn it on. So of course, when I am in a hurry, I pressed the lens and tried to force it back in, and it broke in the spring on 2008.

So then I decided to go with the Sony Cybershot T20 pink camera. I was pretty sure this one won’t break for a while since the zoom lens didnt come out. You just turn it on and you zoom with a digital zoom. This lasted me a while from February 2008 to this month, October 2009. The way this broke was also because it was dropped, but really it wasn’t my fault. At one of the bars when I was working a promo modeling job, one guy took my camera and decided to take a photo of my friend and I and dropped it. A screw came out and the small metal piece that covers the battery and memory card slot was completely loose. I figured if I was careful with it, I can still use it. He apologized but said it was no big deal and he drops his camera all the time!

RIP October 2009

So now, I got the newest Sony Cybershot T90 camera which is hot pink. Its way cuter, touch screen and has smile detection. Supposedly smile detection doesn’t work on Asians, that’s what my friend told me. Not sure but I will test it out this weekend for halloween! TTYS!

it looks like this and I love it!

xoxo Arika ♥