 
4/28/18. Sometimes I feel I’m closing in on the canons at least, but then sometimes I’m not at all sure. ... On the other hand, the camera biz is still going downhill, and I guess I take a guilty perverse pleasure in that — it’s not that I want all those lying incompetent retailers and web sites to be punished exactly — and really, if they were looking forward to a prosperous exciting career they presumably have already suffered much. ... Apple itself, with its iphone camera slayer, makes vast sums but not, sadly, stuff that “just works” anymore ... if it ever did. ... Ah ... it’s all gloom & despair — except for my adorable fiendishly-cute recently-antiquated cameras, even ’though some are broken.... Others: DSLR Silly cameras I II III IV V VI VII VIII Canon S1 IS Casio qv3000 Casio qv4000 Canon PRO90 IS Nikon S4000 Olympus SP320 Flip? Kodak Z981 Nikon cp4100 35mm! Vivitar 250/SL Polaroid pdc640cf Kodak C653 Sony DSC-P93 DSC-P93 Canon A470 Olympus D-360L Olympus C-4040 Kodak P850 Kodak CD33 Fujifilm S2000 Sony DSC-H7, H2 Canon A70, A10, A40 Bare Ruined Choirs ...5/28/18. The groves of silly cameras were silent ... empty ... in a thousand miles of junk! The usual offerings of rusting film devices continued unabated, but no delightful sprightly digital cameras in the bargain bins. ... It seemed the time of abundance had departed, persisting only at the Amazon & Ebay electronic bazaars — so far, I’ve found a single overpriced $50 Olympus silly camera with corroded AA cells. ... My statistical samples are crude no doubt, but it seems that @ 11/17 or so, all the digital camera junk was cleaned out of closets across the land and then — nada. ... But I will defy despair! ... Surely some more digital junk will show-up, someday. ... And then the Florida Oviedo Antique Mall came through @ 6/15/18, with three beautiful silly cameras which will no doubt lighten (or darken) my way — but still not an avalanche ... or even a little mud slide — a single store does not a silly cornucopia make. ... But then came the fall again, with silly cameras in whimpering abundance.... Buy Canon Silly CamerasI suppose I assumed it was obvious, but I will document the obvious here and note that Canon dominates the silly cameras, and today’s camera market such as it is — and the digital camera market past & probably future, world without end. ... All the enthusiast publications — that is, the paid bogus advertising of at least the other camera brands — pretend that it’s a tough competitive market, the glorious race to the swiftest, blah blah. Except of course the wholly bought and paid-for, like the British “brand” magazines which cannot have any unwholesome relations with their obvious sponsor. ... Anyway, the point is all these scammy journalists, mostly on the web today, they’ll pretend that any market is super competitive — if they didn’t, you wouldn’t read their bilge, so you wouldn’t click-through their tasty advertising, and they’d go out of bizness. Where, in the case of the digital cameras at least, they doubtless are going even as I blather....
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The
Rechargeable Battery Scam
In the
competitive ~2008 silly camera zoomer
market, AAs were 
![[13]](thirteen.png)
But in my too-battered S1 the
fuzzy focus remained
unaltered, auto or manual, and so it went home to that great silly
camera
corral in the sky, or at amazon, or "Primeking131". ... I will get
another someday, probably cheaper — 
6/19/18
with my tiny bottle of musical
instrument
lubricating oil, which has an appropriately-delicate
hyperdermic-like applicator;
and of course immediately qtipped off the excess so the camera will
work
perfectly. ... I could 
7/1/18.
Continuing
our
journey into
the earliest reaches of silly cameradom, I hope my $35 1/01
3
released
from the
dungeons of 
And
the Pro90's got the
precious 
7/7/18.
My final
7/9/18.
The 
The unit
has pitiful red sharpie
fine-point scribblings writ upon it in ages past by an infuriated
flip-using video 
7/12/18.
Stung by my silly
camera 
7/14/18.
Seeking
a comfort camera, I played with my adorable 
9/11/18.
On the road again, I found a $5 
10/28/18.
Moving from the 
10/29/18. Continuing our fall-frenzy
silly camera review, I arrive at the first actual picture-taking
camera, and
I think the first Polaroid in the silly collection that has 
doesn't look 
The
battery door, even though broken,
still works (it 
Halloween 2018. Our next contestant is 
And
it might come with a green battery
compartment anyway — but what is this folly?!?! Of 
oh
savages outside the law: the laboratory's green gunk brush, which did a
fair job of offing the green gunk, with the aid of course of 3-in-1
oil,
but still the pitiful camera
complained, and failed. 
So
no sale. ... And it's hardly dremelish; I had to use a regular drill
with
the thing, but it 
11/2/18.
Casting
about for a silly
camera in the fall frenzy box that 
Candle, 
Beach,
Hawaiian Luau (not actually). But there's a "P" and an "M"
just like the 
11/11/18.
And now I will inspect one of the little people of silly cameradom, the
also-rans, the 1/08
8
this pointless exercise (after
rediscovering
the camera's 
11/27/18. The 02/00
1.3
11/29/18. Rolling around to the last
offering of our Seasonal Silly Saga, we find the 6/01
4
The
four pix in the camera appear to immortalize a lovely girl's 33rd
birthday. That's 
7/4/18.
I show the box of the beautiful $32 
12/8/18.
S4000 Redux: not Totally Gershtunk
There 
12/9/18.
S4000 Resurrection!
button which did indeed
make the pictures in-focus — and too dark. ... The last time I did
this was a silly camera with a 
Of 
12/20/18.
The 12/05
5
But
still I revel in my
innocence. It's a totally 
... The
H2 is a mere 
Half-way
3/20/19.
Finally
reaching a $50 harbor after the dark night of broken 
3/24/19.
In a stunning development, I managed to buy 
