camera

in December 2006 at Adorama camera store in New York City I bought an used Nikon FE2 -old school, all manual, the beginner's SLR camera. 120 bucks or so, I was alright to use it up completely to the end of its functional life. And as it seems, just as I ended my 3 month journey through Cambodia then back to Thailand and arrive at Tokyo Narita airport, I asked a person to take a picture of me and my mother, and that's when the camera stopped working, with the shutter stuck and mirror flipped up.
so it traveled 3 months 4 countries and shot 35 rolls, over 1,000 pictures almost all with this 35 dollar used 28mm. and now it broke down... I borrowed my mother's old Minolta with 50mm to finish the rest of journal with it. She bought it (below in the mirror) in 1964 to photograph Tokyo Olympics. In what technology these days could you expect any camera, (or just about any appliance, instrument, or gadget) to last 43 years...?


P.S. entering this part almost 9 months after the fact I just have to notify that, December of 2007 the Nikon camera has come back to its life sevral times and has been continuously fulfilling me with visual pleasure.