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Digital Camera Exploration The camera I used is an [|Olympus D-370]. We received this as a second-hand camera from my mother in law in 2004. It is a basic beginner’s digital camera, with 1.3 megapixels, good storage capability and point-and-shoot picture taking. This assignment was a good opportunity to find out more about this camera, from the linked website above.

As our first experience with digital cameras, it was fine. However, we used it to take lots of pictures while we lived in Germany in 2004-05; this meant we tried to take lots of pictures of tourist places. We did not have any success using the zoom feature, because everything got very blurry. I suppose if we had gone to the website above we would have learned that we couldn't zoom in on a castle on a hill along the bank of the Rhine as our tour boat floated past. The AA battery life was okay, (the website seems to be more impressed by this than we were) but it seemed that in reality we were constantly changing them, and at the worst times.

Over Christmas, we bought a new [|Samsung Digimax A 503] digital camera with 5.0 Mega Pixels, (the zoom feature being very important to my husband after our Germany experience) but the LCD screen was damaged about 4 months later (water? condensation? I don't know--I've not had time to bring it in to a repair shop). My experience with the camera was fine and I liked that I could stick it in my pocket. My husband has bought two digital movie cameras this summer (he had misplaced one right after he bought it and with the birth of the baby coming, he frantically ran out and bought another; we have since found the first one when we unpacked after the big move), but what with one thing and another, I have not even had the opportunity to touch either of these cameras.



Here is Vivia, 3 1/2 weeks. We spend alot of time in front of the computer at my desk (the brightly painted corner there)