How crazy am I?

[smellzlikefish]

My friends have drooled over my old camera since I first held it and the pictures it took were often stunning. Three years, 300 dives and countless snorkeling trips later, the seals around one of the buttons started leaking and they no longer make the housing. Canon's hardware track record and customer service kept e as a customer, so I replaced it with the G-12 which, even after only one dive, has proven to be the superior camera.

Now comes the crazy part. I am selling it to a friend in Long Island and in packing it up, I felt some kind of strange emotional tug, like a little choke at the back of the throat. Sure, it is better that it get used instead of sitting on a shelf like a forgotten museum piece. Still, I can't help but recall fond memories of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or bringing it along with me to Molokai in search of hammerheads. That camera caught some of the first (blurry) pictures of a live cookie cutter shark. Even as the housing was starting to fog in its death throes, I ran into a pair of Ono (Wahoo) and the camera still managed to perform like it was fresh out of the box with nothing less than stunning shots.

Here's to you old friend, and your new adventure!

 

[Deefstes]

Great shots those! May your new camera produce such awesome shots that you will quickly forget the old one

Now let's see that picture of the Cookie Cutter Shark please, I don't care if it's blurry.

 

[smellzlikefish]

To be clear, I believe Josh Lambus got the first, but mine came shortly after.

And from that same dive:

I got some other really nice shots from that dive. I can't see to find them online. Maybe I'll post them later.

 

[Sue Sue]

You are not crazy at all.... Your feelings for something that has brought you pleasure and enjoyment come from your heart. Wishing you the best ! Sue

PS: BTW, a blurry photo of a cookiecutter shark is better than NO photo of a cookiecuter shark ! Thanks for posting it.

 

[knowone]

Your stuff is a part of you as one.

Very good.

 

[vladimir]

Your nostalgia for your old camera is only exceeded by my pity for mine, which was only rarely treated to scenes like that, and even more rarely managed to capture decent images of them. RIP, F90X, RIP, Subal N90 housing.

 

[Bubbletrubble]

Did you ever try taking the leaky button apart, cannibalizing a button from another old Canon UW housing, and then re-installing it in your housing? I realize it's a long-shot, but it could work. I've had to disassemble sticky buttons on my Canon housing before to do DIY maintenance on them.

If you can fix it, you'll have a familiar backup UW camera.
(But then you'd have to back out of the sale. I'm sure your friend would understand, though.)

Nice pics, BTW.

 

[diverrex]

I understand the emotional tug. The camera is an instrument in your hands and basically becomes an extension of yourself.