According to Amazon it was actually 7 years ago. A 14.1MP Panasonic Lumix. I’m sure if I’d bought a DSLR it’d have had a longer lifetime. But this thing got a scratched lens from looking at it wrong and then in 2014 or so the CCD just gave up on life. Of course by that time the age of the pocket camera was over except for a very narrow window of the population / market.
Our next camera was a D7100, which has served me well for the ham-fisted uses I put it towards. But I know that some day it will be no longer, regardless of the level of care I give it. Meanwhile my wife’s 60 year old Hasselblad is good as new after an $800 trip to Germany…
Not so much a screed against the terrors of digital media as much as a fondness for the relative straightforwardness of analog technology.
