One small tragedy from the last trip

Dropped my camera off at the repair shop for an estimate today.

Last Christmas I knew that I'd be on something of a "world tour" this year. At that time I was expecting to go to Amsterdam and maybe Sydney. Alice bought me a great little Canon SD 800 IS camera so I'd have it for the trips.

So far, I've carried the thing thru two trips to Amsterdam, once to Sydney, and two trips to Paris. I've always just dropped it in a jeans pocket without much concern.

On the last evening of my most recent trip I got off the Paris subway in Montmartre on my way to visit the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur. When I pulled the camera out and switched it on I found that the big LCD on the back was cracked and useless.

I had been using the camera a lot during the trip to that point and knew how many presses of which button got to a few specific settings. So I was able to get some shots of the outside of Sacré Cœur using just the optical viewfinder. However, the camera is all but useless without the LCD. The viewfinder doesn't show any information or menus.

A little bit bummed. Hopefully the repairs won't be too large a fraction of the price of a new camera. It really is a gem of a camera for travel.