My Dear Camera

Five and a half years ago, for my 16th birthday, I was the proud recipient of a brand new Pentax S6 digital camera. And now after all this time my faithful pocket-sized companion has met its end and moved on, gone to a digitally enhanced place.

Sure, it wasn’t exactly ahead of the field, nor was it at the top of its class at the time – even now it is dwarfed by all the 12+ megapixel monsters out there on the market. But it always performed above and beyond the call for me, rarely taking a bad photo and never a bad one of Mum (though no amount of argument will convince her otherwise).

That camera accompanied me on journeys to half a world away, the year I lived in France, countless domestic trips, visits to Melbourne, even on dates – I’ve shared some intimate moments with my camera over the past five years of our lives. And for five years, without fail, that camera has documented and kept those moments alive for me. To My Camera, I thank you.