The Possessed Camera....

I have been having camera issues for the last few months. I have a Kodak Easy Share which is easy enough for a camera idiot like me. It's always worked well. It seemed a few months ago, it was going through the rechargable batteries I use in it much more often that it used to . Then it decided it really liked the Energizer rechargables, and a set of those lasted over a month. Not that I take that many pictures, but I was able to take quite a few in that month.

Although a couple of days ago it was fine, today it decided not to work. So I changed the batteries, and took these pictures of my daughter's flowers before the baby rabbits that live in the garage decide to have them as a midnight snack. Brought the camera back in and uploaded the pics to my computer. Then I turned the camera off and set it off to the side on my computer desk.

I was reading something online, when a flashing light caught my eye. It was the camera turning itself on! I checked the little setting on top, it was definitely set on off. Camera was still on. Little flashing light turned green and sat there for awhile. I thought, well, okay this is a little strange. And it got a little stranger when the light started flashing again, and it turned itself off! I tried turning it on, then off again. Still it would turn itself on, then off, and finally refused to turn off at all. I was waiting for a column of smoke to rise and for the entire thing to explode. That didn't happen either. Fortunately.

As long as it was determined to stay on, I decided to take one more picture. Of the duck rock I talked about in my last post. Might as well see if anyone else thinks this rock looks like a duck, since my daughters don't seem to be that impressed with it. I wanted a picture from each side, but the camera objected and quit working altogether.

I decided just to park the thing for awhile, since it appeared to have died completely. Left it on my bed for an hour or so. When I went into plug in my cell phone, which I've yet again forgotten to charge, another story having to do with my extremely short memory for technical things, the camera had turned itself on again! And it was staring at me, again! (It was too!) Apparently a little nap does wonders for a camera.

So I uploaded the last picture. This is the one at the top of the post. And it does too look like a duck! No one can tell me differently.

I'm going to consult my camera book to see if there is a remedy for a possessed camera. I'm not sure that is covered in the little book. Since I prefer not to have a camera staring at me and blinking it's little green light when the switch is not on, I'm going to remove the batteries. If this thing comes on when there are no batteries in it, I'm taking it outside and tossing it as far as I can. Then run inside and lock the door!