On Saturday 18 December 2004 19:12, Joseph Tainter wrote: > I have gotten my wife an Optio S40. This thing is tiny. I was expecting > something the size of a 35 mm. point-and-shoot. She'll be able to leave > this in her purse and have it everywhere.
...which means she won't pull it out. ever! > > She has my old ZX 50, but hasn't been carrying it on travels because she > thinks it's too big and heavy (!). So last spring she had a chance to > drive across Canada, and went and bought a crummy Fuji disposable. > Somewhere in Alberta she saw a white buffalo, so of course it is just a > white speck on the crummy negative. Then this fall she spent a week in > England and did the same thing. That was the last straw. I had to get > her a decent, small camera. Was she ever really interested in photography--or, rather, was she ever interested enough to think very much about photography? If not, then I doubt even the best device would get her any more interested. Enthusiasm may be infectious, but many people are immune--lots of people bought SLRs in the '70s, and now those are finding their way onto the used market in droves. Most people want photography like George Eastman saw it: "You push the button--we do the rest" and really aren't that bothered about equipment or technique. oh well. The Optio S series is great. I wonder why they named such a small camera after a junior rank in the ancient Roman army though... -Luigi eagerly awaiting the Pentax Decurion and Centurion
