Lost in the supermarket

Posted on February 12, 2004 by acb

I’m suddenly tormented with lust for a digital camera. There is a family expedition to Tuscany next week; I don’t want to schlep a big SLR around and then spend

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6 Responses to Lost in the supermarket

  1. snapper says:
    February 12, 2004 at 4:01 pm

    I’ve just been down the local snapper’s paradise and the the blokes there they say G5 no doubt about it.

    It’s here: http://ukdigitalcameras.safeshopper.com/74/742.htm?555 for

  2. el Patron says:
    February 12, 2004 at 4:36 pm

    and I’ve just sold, I think, a dream story to the Guardian Saturday magazine. Quick: get them to say that the A80 will do just as well.

  3. snapper says:
    February 12, 2004 at 10:28 pm

    Well, Digital Photography Review like the A70 very much: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canona70/page15.asp, and the A80′s even better, so I’m sure it’s very good. And it’s more than

  4. el Patron says:
    February 13, 2004 at 3:40 pm

    you’re right. It’s broken in Opera, too; and I can’t work out why. It’s obviously something I did when I floated the posted class off to the right. Didn’t have any effect on the main page though.

    Anyway, an A80 is due here on Monday, after a remarkably spirited discussion with wife and daughter. In the end I just couldn’t justify to myself the extra for the G5. Besides, this is smaller, lighter, and takes AA batteries, which makes it better for fishing trips in wild places than something that has to be recharged.

    Besides (2) I can always dream about a g8 now.

  5. el Patron says:
    February 13, 2004 at 4:52 pm

    Ok. Multiple small nonenses fixed, I think. And “textile”:http://www.bradchoate.com formatting ought to work in comments, too. I may rgret this, and, if I do, I will remove it.

  6. el Patron says:
    February 13, 2004 at 4:54 pm

    Yup. Textile works in comments.

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