Sunday, January 2, 2011

Not buying a camera in 2010


View, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Window, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Orivesi, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Orivesi, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Fireworks, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Winter, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

I managed to resist buying a new camera in 2010, but I'm not at all sure about 2011. Today I ordered a new battery (non-brand) for the LX3, as one of the two has started to deteriorate rapidly, only good for 50-100 photographs in cold weather. I have been doing "the warm the battery up inside a glove" trick too often, and got tired of it. I didn't buy a Panasonic-branded battery, so this was a minimal investment, 10 euros including postage.

Here are six photographs from yesterday and today. We were visiting Orivesi for a day or so, and you can see a bit different landscape in the two photographs from there. There was frost on the trees, making them look quite different from the trees here in Vantaa.

2 comments:

Matias said...

May I ask where you bought the battery? I'm thinking of getting one.

Juha Haataja said...

Here in Finland we have an online price comparison (hintaseuranta.fi) tool where I put the battery name (CGA-S005A) and got the best offer from a Finnish net store (Mania33).