Another Aya Sophya Moment

Speaking of dropped items, I was trying to juggle a banana and the camera the other day – not long after the rum jar incident – and lost hold of both. :( The lens was bashed in at a stomach-lurching angle and of course wouldn't close. After fiddling with the mechanism and, I'll admit, forcing a few things, I managed to get the whole working again, albeit not in the smooth fashion that it used to and the lens cover will probably be forever cockeyed. But I breathe a tentative sigh of relief that the damage wasn't worse.

 

Years ago, our first digi cam met with a worse fate on a marble floor in Istanbul. (Above are the last three pictures that camera ever took, of the Blue Mosque and of the Aya Sophia outside and in.) I recall it also fell on its outstretched lens, made a few sickening attempts at retracting the lens, and then nothing. We tried fixing it at our hotel room, for which I got shocked (by the flash capacitor), but it was no use. We ended up purchasing one of those disposable cameras for the rest of our vacation.