The camera was fine....I felt like an idiot after I figured out he wasn't joking...I seriously thought...he was clowning around with me..and when I saw that camera laying there...I just about you know what! I remember you telling me about the prices of film, and I expect some bizarre and wonderful experiences to come from your new one. I think the idea is, that the mundane itself, is not so very mundane, if you choose to see it as something different. It is after all the mundane, if you will, that occupies a large part of our daily lives...who would think a wire whisk and christmas ornament could give us a brand new vision? But, alas, it is true. Now Im off to find some light and bizarre. Problem is I am suffering from bad camera shake. Syyd