It’s here!

19 August 2005

The D50 turned up yesterday, was thrust into my hands by the courier, who said, “with love from Amazon” and then shot off, without giving me anything to sign. DHL are still investigating as everything should be signed for. The replacement camera from Amazon is now also on its way to me, but interestingly, the Parcelforce tracking for that one currently says “Undeliverable – insufficient / incorrect address”. Is it simply that all courier drivers are in need of a good digital camera nowadays?!

Anyway, it’s here and within a few shots, I was already taking fabulous photos – that is, once I’d figured out how to get the neck strap attached to the camera. The automatic setting is amazing, you just point and shoot and the camera goes all suave and says, ‘Ok, I’ll focus on this bit and throw the rest out of focus …. how’s that?’ And you promptly fall down in tongue-lolling admiration of the camera and yourself.