A couple of years ago, my older sister bought me a digital camera for Christmas.
"Lucky you!" you might well say, but...
Let's just say, um, that the camera doesn't quite do what it promises.
For a start, it's very small.
It's dimensions are 6cm wide, 4cm tall, and 1½cm thick.
It has a keyring loop on it. As in, keep it on a loop with your keys...?
It runs on a single AAA alkaline battery. If the battery runs flat, or if it falls out, all the pictures are deleted.
It has no flash. If the image you are trying to take is too dark, it won't take it.
It has no preview screen, just a little window that slides up from the top to give you an (approximate) view through the lens.
It does, however, come with a CD-Rom with all the stuff you need to get it to work, and it does come with a USB cable.
EDIT: Here's a nice decent visible picture of it, if that description didn't do it for you:
So far, I have had it for about two years, and I have never been able to get it to work.
Until this week.
I took it along with me to the fateful non-working working bee at the art studio last Thursday, and took some photos of the murals (in case I didn't get any from Andrew, but it turned out that I did after all).
Because the camera is only a budget model (ha!) I had no way of knowing how the photos would turn out until I got it home and uploaded them. When I did, this is what popped out:
Thrilling, huh?
But wait, there's more! I decided to take some photos of our new refrigerator and compared it with our our old one. Have a look!
I was a tad disappointed with the camera at first, especially since this is supposed to be the HIGH RESOLUTION setting. And no, I haven't reduced the size of the pictures in order to upload them - that's what it spits out. 352 x 288 pixels to be precise.
Okay, so it's not the best camera. But then I realised, "Hey! So what? You can still recognise what the subjects are, um, almost..." And besides, it's not as if I have a better digital camera lying around the house!
So I've decided to keep on using it, and to take pictures of things I otherwise wouldn't be able to.
I have christened it... Dinkycam.
Keep your eyes open for more photos, folks!
and NB. I will NOT be uploading pornographic images of myself.
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