Some months back my precious camera (Kodak V610) went bust, and was declared irreparable. I remember I bought it en route to the airport on our trip to Kanyakumari, almost 4 years ago. The salesperson didn’t know the first thing about selling a camera, but I knew the features pat, and wanted only that one. With over 10,000 pictures from the Kodak, I was sad to let it go. So it stayed on my desk gathering dust for 3 months. Yesterday, at the peak of my joblessness, I felt like taking it apart, for the fun of it, so I did. And made some interesting pictures:

And one old-worldly picture that belies the extreme technology that went into this device: