Self Portrait Sunday 12/20/09
Alternatively titled: The Picture I Would Have Posted Yesterday If My Computer Had Cooperated
This is me, wearing my brother’s Colts Santa hat, at our family Christmas gathering yesterday with my mom. I would have posted it last night after I got home, but my computer decided to ignore my attempts to download my pictures. I may as well have been shoving a glass tile into the card reader on my laptop for all my efforts. At first I thought it was because it was the small SD card that came with the new camera, but my laptop wouldn’t recognize my older larger SD card either. I did finally get the pictures downloaded this morning.
Speaking of the new camera… I don’t know that I ever mentioned it here. Last week, I ordered a new point and shoot camera to replace my dying uncooperative Canon A530. I got another Canon, this time the A1100IS. I chose it largely because I was happy with my previous Canon, I wanted a point and shoot that still took AA batteries, and I could get it for about $30 after all the Amazon.com gift cards I had were taken off. I used it last night and after that experience, I think I’m going to be sending it back to Amazon in exchange for another camera. It just would not take good pictures. It didn’t matter if I put it in Auto, or Program, Portrait, Kids and Pets… etc… everything was blurry, or overexposed, or or or. You can really hear the camera when is auto-focusing, and it just felt really cheap when I first took it out of the box.
So I’m going to spend a good portion of my day searching Amazon and reading reviews trying to find a different camera to replace this one. Any advice? Got a great point and shoot camera that you love? (That’s around the $150 range?)
