Monday 10 November 2008

My new camera


Have finally taken the plunge and bought a new all-singing all-dancing digital camera. My Fujifilm F700 still works fine but the battery no longer holds its charge for very long. So I have lashed out on a Panasonic DMC-Tz5 with a wide angle lens and a 10x zoom. Not actually sure what a 10x zoom means but it sounds impressive.

Oh dear, perhaps I should have gone for something simpler and more in keeping with my technical abilities...... The instruction book is 104 pages long! So far I have set the clock and the date and have taken a few tentative photos. But Section 9 is Useful Features for Travel including recording your travel date and destination and registering local time at your overseas destination. Do I really need this? Surely if I later see a photo of a sandy palm-fringed beach I will realise this is Thailand and not Coventry?

Anyway I refuse to be beaten by an inanimate object so I will gradually work my way through the instructions. But will I ever understand what DPOF PRINT, ASPECT CONV. or HI-SPEED BURST really mean?

Aunt Ina's funeral

Just back from an overnight visit to Glasgow for the funeral of my Aunt Ina. She was born in 1924 and was the second youngest of eight children. She was born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow and later moved to Erskine just outside Glasgow. I remember her as a very fine looking woman with a sharp tongue! I last saw her about four years ago when I was in Scotland doing some family history research.
I was so glad I was able to go to the funeral as she was the last of my parents' generation - so very much the end of an era. And it was lovely to see some relatives again.