If you aren't aware, my digital camera woes go back to our time in China. We had our "old" camera then. It was on the fritz, but somebody (ahem, ahem) somehow remained immune to my incessant complaining about this prior to the trip. And so we traveled to China with the old camera, muddled through with a minimum of I-told-you-so's from me to you-know-who, and came away with one fabulous daughter and many less than fabulous-quality photos. A month after being home, ykw decides that the camera is cr*p and that we need a new one. Uh...no kidding.
Anyway, here we are today. About 9 months with "new" camera and I am getting equally frustrated. We have a Sony SuperSteady Shot DSC-H2, or something like that. Loved it at first. It even made a cool clicking noise when you took photos, reminiscent of a camera from "back in the day". I felt like a real photographer. Ha. Then, somehow someway, it starts freezing and acting like it can't focus. That delay you get when snapping a shot on a digital camera? Well, that would seem like a nansecond compared to the delay we get now. Of course, me and ykw both deny that we ever changed any settings - knowingly or unknowingly. I want to just take it to a camera shop and have somebody in the know take a look. YKW actually gets out the manual (for real! there's a guy on the planet who consults the manual - and I live with him!) to try to figure it out for himself.
In the meantime, I get this:
Granted, I'm so in love with my kids that I even love the tops, sides, and backs of their heads, but I'm missing some really great smiles. Of course, I am also grateful that I'm not paying cold hard cash to get film developed only to see such head shots - there is a certain satisfaction in the digital world of just deleting that which is annoying. But still. There has to be something better. Right? Something within the budget of a SAHM, eh?
Anyone? Anyone?
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