Digital cameras

Posted on July 11th, 2007 at 4:07pm

I decided a while ago that I'd buy a digital camera with my birthday money. I like to take pictures and I've taken somewhere between 700 and 800 photos with my camera phones over the last two years, so it's time I went and got a 'proper camera', right?

I saw a digital camera on sale for £90, so bought that camera.
Cheap, right? Wrong!
As well as the digital camera, I needed an SD card...a 1GB SD card was £25. Oh and I needed some batteries too...my camera took 'double A' batteries - another £5 spent.

I started testing out my camera; trying to get to grips with it and found that the alkaline batteries I'd bought weren't going to last me very long; I needed rechargable batteries for high tech devices; four of these 'double A' batteries (which would work well on a high tech device) costs another £10. I don't have a battery charger - how am I planning on charging and recharging my batteries? The cheapest battery charger I could find cost another £10.

So that 'cheap' £90 digital camera actually ended up costing me £130+.

Anyway, I love my digital camera! It's a Kodak C743^{^} and takes pretty good pictures. And it's a cute camera.

My digital camera:

My rechargable batteries and battery charger:

My back garden: (an example of how awesome the pictures are compared to my phone)

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8 Comments on "Digital cameras"...

kim commented on July 11th, 2007 at 8:12pm. (Permalink?)

Ooo, lush camera!
Love the picture quality in comparisson

Maz commented on July 11th, 2007 at 11:25pm. (Permalink?)

Cool camera. And a happy belated birthday.

BTW, online, you can buy 1GB SD cards for about five quid and 2GB ones for under a tenner. I think Amazon has some cheap ones.

Phi commented on July 12th, 2007 at 2:49am. (Permalink?)

Awesome Camera Lirae
Your backyard is gorgeous, i love the flowers

Tiff commented on July 12th, 2007 at 4:31am. (Permalink?)

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Crystal commented on July 12th, 2007 at 6:13pm. (Permalink?)

Hey I have the same camera, only yours is a newer version mines c643. I'm planning on getting a SLR and those are like $600 +! One thing I like about the kodak camera is the icons that tell you if it's blury or not.

Jenna commented on July 12th, 2007 at 7:23pm. (Permalink?)

I have that same camera!
it works great, except at night, which is kind of depressing.
but i know what its like to buy something, then realize it doesn't come with anything.
cute site too!

tom commented on July 15th, 2007 at 2:13am. (Permalink?)

Hey lIrae thanks for the comment , :-) hows you i have just gotyten in from a wedding

Annie commented on July 15th, 2007 at 6:25pm. (Permalink?)

That's a nice camera. Brilliant quality aswell. You got a much better offer with your SD Card , mines only 512mb and it cost more than yours but that maybe because I had to buy one with a memory stick adapter :s.