February 08, 2001

More bitching about the camera

Oh man sometimes I really hate being cutting edge. This traveling with a second generation digital camera sucks. I'll admit that the battery life is bearable if you're going to be a nazi watching the power management procedures but it's just too unreliable. I've got three flash cards the 8MB one that came with the camera and two 16MB ones that Rasta gave me. One of the 16MB totally went out on me today. I ended up having to erase another card with pictures from the day before and that morning so I'd be able to get pictures of the Taj Mahal. Then to add insult to injury the battery died after 15 shots. So to re-iterate:

  • Don't buy a camera from a computer manufacture.
  • Find a camera that uses a standard battery that can be purchased from someone besides the manufacture (they'll rape you).
  • The camera needs to have drivers that don't force you to use some crappy application to move the picture.
  • Talk to other owners.
    • The last one is important find out how it works in low light, the real battery life and how bad the drivers are (no one makes good drivers, it's a myth).
Posted by drewish at February 8, 2001 10:10 PM

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