Digital camera

[avram]

I took advantage of no-tax-below-Houston day (there should be a third, and last, such day tomorrow, according to the signs I saw) to invest in a low-end digital camera. It’s a Canon PowerShot A10. Only 1.3 megapixels, but it’s got a 3x optical zoom, which suits my purposes. What? Oh, my purposes are to use it to take reference photos. I can store the photos on my hard drive and call ’em up on my monitor when I need them; that’s why 1.3 megapixels is fine. Takes up less space than a physical reference file, and I don’t have to wait for the photos to be developed.

The salesman was a real hard-sellin’ sonovagun. He talked me into getting a 128 megabyte flash card (the 8 meg card that comes with the camera only holds 16 pictures, so this was a worthwhile purchase, and the guy on line next to me assured me that $44 [after a $20 rebate] was a good deal for such a thing) and a battery recharger. I made my save against getting a flash card reader when I learned that I could just pipe the images right into my computer through a USB cable.