It has happened. After about 2 years of faithful service, my A620 has kicked the bucket. I bought this camera for about $240 and I can’t say I have made many better purchases in my life (other than the $30 bucks I forked out for my Columbia wrist-watch which still works fine to this date after about 5-6 years of abuse…) As someone tinkering with photography this thing was a dream. It was fairly fast to turn on, had a buttload of manual settings and best of all … A SCREEN THAT SWIVELS. I was told I would never really use the feature and that it’s mostly a gimmick, but this is the one reason why I am not too impressed by “better cameras” that have 10 billion megapixels. What’s the point if you can’t easily take a picture of yourself and a friend? The ability to swivel in most possible directions let me take some pictures I wouldn’t have been able to otherwise – like when taking a picture over a crowd of people (don’t have to be 8 feet tall…) or using my body for support as I take a picture with the camera against mah belly. The unit is also built like a brick. I carried this thing around on the construction site WHILE working on the solar house… while dragging myself in dirt under the deck of the house and it’s had its experiences with gravitational forces of the unpleasant nature.

I am planning to step up to DSLRs and maybe learn more but this thing will be sorely missed.

The following are some of the last pictures it took before it had futile negotiations with fine sand on the beaches of San Diego.

R.I.P.

Canon point and shoots are love. Having a DSLR as its merits, as does P&S cameras. A lot of DSLR users I know have P&S cameras for days when they don’t feel like lugging their bulky cameras with them.

P&S + underwater case = LOVE

The swivel. Ah yes a feature that many more cameras should have.

RIP you little technological wonder!

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