akirlu | Broken Tools (Reply)

Well, crapdoodle.

Apparently some time in October I managed to bang the Lumix around hard enough that it chipped the lens. I hadn't been doing much photography in October and so the camera was floating around at the bottom of my book bag with my pens and knitting needles and whatnot, apparently getting knocked around much worse than I would have imagined. The chip's not really fixable. You couldn't grind it out without completely altering the lens focus, and the Lumix has a fixed lens, that is it's built right into the body rather than on a lens mount. I'm sure it would cost more to replace the lens than to replace the whole camera. I can still take pictures, of course, but, like in the shot above, the chip means every image gets a blur in it.

And while it I can sometimes finagle decent images with it, if I am careful about where the blur winds up, still, it is not a happy outcome. Foo.