New Camera

Thursday, May. 14, 2009 - 12:12 a.m.

Yesterday, I'd doffed my duds and had the shower fixture turned on and ready to use and ALL of a sudden here was UPS.

The delivery was at around a quarter to seven at night.

I am certain there is a skin / porcelain / water corollary involved.

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What arrived yesterday was a new camera.

Well, I mean, new in the box, but about a year and a half old as far as production goes.

It's an Olympus FE-310, which uses the same AA batteries and XD cards as my D-390 does, except it's 8 megapixels instead of two and I can use 1-Gigabyte cards for storage instead of 32 Mb cards.

I'm all set for the next time I see Keane, that's for sure.

There'd been some gripes in the reviews about battery usage, but I use rechargeables and am having no problems; I sat here with a pair of fresh from the charger Energizer 2500 batteries, and took twenty flash pictures without a low battery indicator in sight.

I predict this is going to be a good camera.

But just for sure, my D-390 is safely stashed here in the electronics drawer.

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My bass and amp and related etceteras will be here on Friday.

I can hardly wait!

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I also finished my writing assignment, which should have taken a hell of a lot less time than it did, but oh well. It's done.

It was one side of one page and it stymied me. I spent almost two weeks dithering around with that thing.

Had I written eight pages, I would have finished in an hour. Go figure.

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Reminder for those who give a patoot: Tonight is the last episode of this cycle of Hell's Kitchen.

I'm pulling for Danny, but I'll be okay if Paula wins it.

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That's it. Have a good Thursday.

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2 of my readers commented on this entry

art - 2009-05-14 14:46:22
i used to have one of those cameras! they for sure eat the batteries, but since you have rechargables, it will be ok.
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OmahaDave - 2009-05-14 17:14:23
Happiness is a new camera! Yeah, digital cameras chew through regular alkaline batteries, just keep one set of rechargeables in the camera and the other in the charger. Suggestion on memory cards, buy them online. Brick and mortar places heavily mark up the prices on the cards and often don't have the newer larger cards. Bought a 16G SD card online for $37, where as the same in stores was $80, and most stores topped out at 8G. Why such a large card for my little point and shoot? Because it can do video too, which eats up the bytes.
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