A mere ten months before the presidential election polls, election-fever has this nation in a tight hold. At one point yesterday, the votes of 17 residents of a hamlet in New Hampshire was considered newsworthy. In a nation of 300 million people, that is quite something.Ever since we arrived I have been seeing a bumper sticker:
1.20.09
The end of an error
Celebrating (in advance) the end of George W Bush's presidency.
We are of course only interested observers of the whole circus. Maybe it's just as well - it allows us a certain detached pleasure as we look on.
So, anyway - today is the end of an era - the demise of this trusty camera. It has taken most of the pictures posted here (all except for a few mobile-phone shots) until today. On Day 250, the shutter release button came off and it has never been the same - often just failing to take a picture despite my best cut-off-tack and insulating-tape repair - and more recently developing an occasional stripy special effect. So it has been retired in favour of Christmas/Birthday money spent on a newer curvier model. As you can see, it takes a pretty good picture too.
so come on... bit of advertising and score more google hits - what make and model did you get ?
ReplyDeleteCanon PowerShot SD870 IS (European name IXUS 860 IS - for some reason).
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About the same size as my IXUS 500 (pictured) - 8MP instead of 5, curvy body, tiny battery, wider angle, MUCH bigger LCD screen. I got it for $300 (£150 at today's exchange rate). So far (12 hours in) I'm very happy with it.
hehe bought one two weeks ago myself... very nice little camera. the Canon "extras" pack that includes a spare battery and a case for it was a worthwhile and inexpensive addon too. also, found 8Gb SDHC memory works very well in it.
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