Effing Camera!

As I've recently mentioned, we are really bad about taking advantage of photo opportunities with the kids, hence the purchase of the new Casio pocket digital camera. The first day I took it out, though, something strange happened: I took a load of photos of the kids' last day of swimming lessons, but when I got home, only 11 showed up. I figured I had the settings messed up somehow, but it was still strange. That was using the old card I had in my old Kodak—64 MB, if you can believe it! I don't even think they make them that small anymore. So the next thing I did, while I was at Radio Shack buying an ethernet cable so I could tap into Jerry's DSL up here in NH, was buy a 1-gig card. It was marked down from $60 to $40, with a $15 mail-in rebate, so quite a deal. Fast forward to today at Story Land, where we rode the Bamboo Chutes approximately 10,000 times and had all kinds of other fun (including having to get a maintenance guy to take apart a machine in the ball pit because Julie let her sunglasses get sucked up into the vacuum thingy). I was so good, I took photos at every opportunity. The kids posed, they were photographed at candid moments, everything. Come back and find I have only 11 shots! Again, with the 11! I finally discovered that the camera didn't know I had a memory card in there, so it was storing only 11 photos in its own internal memory, instead of the 400+ photos the card allowed. So I lost a bazillion shots and have only a few decent ones to share with you, but I'm too inconsolable right now to crop them properly and present them with clever captions. Mutter, mutter, curse, curse.

Comments

[scott]

Painful!

But I still want to see :)

[Margaret]

You'd think that a camera would be smart enough to know it had a memory card in it. Sheesh! I still don't know exactly how to work my digital camera. Once I accidently pressed a button, and all the photos became my favorites. The camera didn't want to hold them all, so it had a melt-down. Doesn't it realize that I don't know what I'm doing??