My trusty Canon IXUS30 (on the right) has been a faithful companion for a few years now. It’s rugged, quick and is pretty good in evening light without a flash (I hate flashes – as my bevy of golden coloured photos on Flickr can attest to). I dropped it (in my messenger bag, when I crashed my tank (Swedish miitary bicycle) recently, and not until a few days later did I realise it had actually cracked open; and lost a few screws. I managed to trnsplant a screw from the bottom and close the casing on the side with it.. and it still works like it alwasy has.

Recently we upgraded Marie’s crappy Kodak to a Chocolate coloured Canon IXUS 80IS, which is much the same camera as the IXUS30, but has a few extra ISO settings, and takes huge photos. I’m not sure the quality is all that much better really- and still don’t really get the business with the MegaPixels – but I have noticed folks on Flickr have much better photos than I do, and they seem to be able to play around more freely than I can with my prettymuch-automatic, shoot-and-miss diddy.

Being a guy who draws, I haven’t had much use or interest in photography (especially since when I learned about photography we used a Kodak Brownie, shot black and white, and had to actually use a darkroom and chemicals… what a tedious process! Not to mention 9 times out of ten my shots were uselessly blurry – you wouldn’t believe the amount of film I wasted!).
With the digital camera, though, I’ve shot everything and anything I fancy. I don’t really think about it when I do it – which is what’s fun, I think. But it would be nice to have some quality photographs, now that I actually LIKE photographing.

Now I’m starting to think it’s time to get serious. SLR maybe? Any advice? Ed? Stevey? Chrissie? Geoff? Anyone?

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