New Digital Camera

Got a new camera. I shall start adding pictures of food as I prepare it, and putting them here.

A quick review of it follows, for those interested.

It's small, losable, takes excellent night shots I find, has a very easy to use menu where you just turn the knob left or right and it tells you what that setting is ideal for (night shots, panoramas, portraits, close-ups, landscapes, motion/action shots). on the large LCD display on the back. They have separate buttons for review and delete, which is good, because in just 3 days I have realised that many of my friends are not photogenic, so being able to delete without going through ,enus is great.

It has that irritating delay that all digital cameras have, in that enough time elapses between to clicking the 'take the picture' button and it taking the picture, for someone to walk in front. The delay is long enough to make you move the camera thinking that it has done it's job. Really, this should be fixed. Surely these manufacturers know that you want to take the picture when you press the button, not 2 seconds later?

The software that comes with it, Kodak Easy Share, is intensely wrong. It doesn't put the pictures in the right place, they've mucked around with the standard windows interface so it feels uncomfortable to use and is ugly to look at, they have done silly things with their icons that make them unpleasant to click on. Oh, and the default orange theme is revolting.

It does take movies as well (hooray), but what I really want is automatic time-lapse photography, so I can film bread rising, peas growing, etc. it's not included, which is silly, because it is a glaring omission from the otherwise excellent options...and it already does movies.

It's entry level, maybe I expect too much. it would be nice if the casing was titanium or aluminium, but it still looks good. It also slips easily in to your pocket and weights next to nothing.