In keeping with the hypothesis that one does not receive things for which one does not ask…
It seems as though my Trusty Canon Digital Rebel XT might not be long for this world, what with its persistent odd shutter issues and a new stuck pixel on its CMOS about every time I look closely. I’ll be nursing it along until I can’t nurse it along any further, Captain — I canna change the laws o physics — but it occurs to me that there might be someone out there who has one of these sitting around not being used, and who would be pleased to be able to say to themselves that their former possession was being used to save the desert. Or to document that part of the desert that could not be saved.
So I’m asking. Got one I can use?
It’s kind of amazing how fast the going price on those things drops, isn’t it? My Canon was bottom of the top of the line when I bought it, all 7.99999 megapixels of it, and the T3 is now selling for less than half of what I bought mine for.
I’d certainly entertain using other cameras, point-shoots, etc. In fact, I imagine I could find a few volunteers to go out and document things with donated cameras, which might be worth exploring. But I’ve got lenses to fit the Canon EOS series, so it makes sense to me to see if someone’s got one gathering dust that they’d just as soon have someone put to good use.
And of course there’s no way any sane person with a set of Canon lenses would turn down a donation of something higher-end than the T3, either, if anyone has one they need to get rid of in exchange for intangibles like gratitude, goodwill, and saving the desert. But, you know. There are tools that outstrip the talent of the person using them.
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