Getting a camera

Here was another compromise to time. I could find the time to do a health and safety course and book out, collect and return a camera or buy one. We bought one. Well, Mark bought one - he's longed for one for ages but I'm always 'what do we need that for' and 'we'll never watch it'. I still think that's true, but at least I had a purpose. It's a sexy little thing - easily fits in a coat pocket or handbag. It takes photos, stores and plays back music - i dare say if one could fit a film on the card you could play back that too. Its zoom needs a soft touch, it's hardly a smooth or gentle transition! The transfer from camera to PC is clunky. Silly me, I thought 'ah, a card, I can stick that into the computer and copy them off and that'll be that'. But no. They need to come from the camera to PC via leads and its own software and you have to know to push a little function button on the camera to make the whole thing work.