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06/27/2004 Archived Entry: "camera"

I don't think I ever mentioned my new camera. Last month it started doing this thing where it beeped and gave me an error message everytime I turned it on. I would have to open the battery compartment, take out the battery, blow into the compartment so as to dislodge invisible dust, replace battery, close compartment door, turn on camera and completely miss whatever kodak moment I was trying to capture. After a week of this, we decided a new camera was necessary. Chris looked up our purchase history on the camera and it turns out we had bought the replacement warranty. Yay! Even better, it was set to expire in July so the camera chose a good time to break down. So off to the audio/video specialists store we went. Of course, they don't replace the camera with an identical model, becuase with technology, things always change and they no longer sell our old digital camera. We bought it 3 years ago, but it's actually a 2000 model because we bought it on close-out. Anyway, in 4 years, the technology has gone up and the price has gone down. Our old model was 1.3 mgs and standard stuff. The new camera is 3.2 mega-pixels, 3x optical zoom (plus digital zoom), and it has sound in movie mode. It is soooo much better than our old camera and it was free because we had the foresight to buy the replacement warranty 3 years ago :) The downside to this camera is it has so many settings and I don't know how to use them all so sometimes I get a couple fuzzy pictures whilst I learn to use it properly. Yesterday I got my first prints back that included some from the new camera and some from the old camera and I can really see a difference in the sharpness of the prints. Also, the new camera will make enlargements more clear. I'm very pleased with my new toy.