Colin's camera

[frankielee242]

No: HPFGUIDX 46937

Grey Wolf wrote:
> At any rate, it doesn't invalidate my point: Colin's camera is almost 
> certainly a normal muggle camera. We could discuss, I supose, the 
> advantages or disadvantages of wizard camaras (why have a smoking 
> camera? how does it make it better than a regular muggle one?), but I 
> fear that the lack of canon in this theme is abysmal, especially 
> compared with the number of aparitions of camaras so far.


I'm sure someone has brought up SLR (single lens reflex) cameras
already, but I'm guessing Colin would have his father's old Canon,
Nikon or Minolta 35mm camera and not a new "point-and-shoot" camera,
muggle or wizarding. The only support I have for this idea is that
Colin's father is a milkman, not a Dairy Counsel board member. I think
he would have given Colin his old camera to take to school rather than
buy him a new one.

In CoS, Colin was found petrified, holding his camera up to his face.
This rules out a 120mm camera or other medium format cameras that he
would look down into to focus. Sorry, don't have my books handy for a
page number.

If Colin has a "point-and-shoot" camera, he would have looked through
a viewfinder that was separate from the actual lens. And he would have
died, having looked the basalisk directly in the eye.

Therefore, I think Colin has a basic, muggle, manual 35mm camera. With
it, he would have looked through the view-finder at a mirror
reflecting a second mirror on the back of the actual shutter. 

In short, Colin was petrified the same way Hermione and Penelope were.
He just used a more expensive mirror.


Frankie, who appologizes profusely if she's just repeated what someone
else posted earlier.