Last effort by the mighty G6 :(

Here I am in Australia staying with friends at beautiful Nambour on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland (north of Brisbane) taking a few happy snaps and…

…the mighty G6 refuses to switch on! Aarghh!

That's the bad news. There is worse news -- the camera is a gray import; so no warranty. I bought it on eBay because I wanted a white camera not offered in Australia (for some stupid reason).

The good news: thank goodness it chose this moment to go rather than when I was on a job in a remote corner of New Guinea! I have had no back up camera for more than a year; the lack of back up in case of breakdown was making me increasingly nervous, so I was planning to buy a GX7 to fill that role during this visit to Oz but then I was also thinking about waiting a bit to see if the GX8 (or a G8) materialized in May.

Well, the decision is out of my hands now -- I have to buy a camera and also see about getting this one fixed outside warranty. Probably not viable but I will see.

In the meantime, a couple of the last pix I took with the G6:

A panorama from a lookout near Nambour. The 12-35 @ 35 held vertically. 10 frames. Manual exposure. Stitched with PTGui.

I didn't get the horizon quite straight. I trimmed the top of the frame to get this view. Clearly, though, a view this wide is silly unless you are going to print it very large and have it stretch across a wall.

An unattended roadside stall for local produce operated on the honesty system. You take the fruit you want and put your coins (up to $2 is coins in Australia) in the little box on the left corner of the stall.