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)
