No more use

– to me, that is.  I finally decided to sell the last of my film cameras, my faithful old OM1N.  I took it to CameraWorld in Stevenage, but the chap there found that the batteries, which I had foolishly left in the chamber, were corroded and had ruined the contacts.  It was worth nothing.

I managed to persuade him to buy my (quite rare) XA4, but the flash for that also had a corroded battery chamber, so it was useless.

The OM1N is a mechanical camera and doesn't need electrical power to work, but who would want a meter-less camera these days?  I might put it in among the toys for the small people.  That feels quite wrong, though . . .