Today my old faithful LUMIX camera finally gave up and died. It has served well, documenting many places, on cruise ships, ports of call, rowing regattas, as well as most of my cycling adventures. I’m not sure when I bought it, but it was when a previous camera failed on a Cycling trip – possibly in Norway somewhere. So it is fitting that it ceased its existence in Scandinavia. The wear and tear of being stuffed into bike panniers, suitcases and back pockets – and being dropped every so often – has finally done it in. Probably the cobble stones yesterday was the coup de grace.
It started its life before smartphone cameras were not even close to being of sufficient quality, it had a great zoom Leica lens and slipped in a handlebar bag with ease. It even could WiFi images to my first iPad, which puts it at about a 2011 vintage.
Its final image is also the only image it’s taken on this trip. Every other image has been taken by my iPhone. It’s fitting that the image was a telephone image of Elsinore Castle across in Denmark, taken from Helsingborg. Something the iPhone couldn’t possibly come close to doing.
Will I replace it? Possibly but not very likely as each iteration of the iPhone improves its camera capabilities. So below are just a couple of images it captured for me in the past.