Good luck mate

(Associated phrases - Buy cheap, buy twice, For a haporth of tar.)


Falls off chair laughing.

Hmm. I can see that for some people here, the only acceptable colour for a "serious" camera is black. Fine. If you want a black one, then all well and good. On the other hand, is that a good reason not to make alternatives?

If I was buying one of these, I would almost certainly have a black one,but I would not for one second presume to deny those who would prefer another colour.

I have to say that the picture that Mike P posted appeals to my sense of fun.

In times past, all engineering had to be strictly Bauhaus, but that has changed.

The obvious example that springs to mind is Richard Dyson's vacuum cleaners. Until they appeared on the scene, you could have any colour from mushroom to grey. Not only had he produced quite a clever piece of engineering, but he had also played the aesthetics card.

The one group of people I can see havinga legitimate gripe is the dealers who have to stock the different variations.

'Ere - they talk loik thaaat all the toime where Oi come frommm.

If it is made properly, there shouldn't be an issue. In the old days, putting your speakers anywhere near the tv had interesting results, then came magnetically shielded pc and home theatre speakers.

Interesting Don. It's curious how taking the flesh colour out of one and two makes it look (to me) as if the flesh is that of an old person.

Moral issues aside, getting a cracked version may give you more than you expected.

Good point Amin.

Good point Barry. Something has to be still running when it's off. That's why pcs have to have a battery and cannot rely purely on non volatile memory. I wonder how long it would take the camera to forget the date with the main battery out.

The suggestion is that there a second battery which we do not have access to.

Guessing, I would say not Barry. Modern memory does not necessarily need to be powered to remember what it is remembering (). If it did I would hope the battery for it would be accessible and I haven't seen it on my camera.

OTOH, if all the memory in the camera were non volatile, the 'take the battery out out for ten minutes' trick when the camera gets itself in a twist would not work.

That would make sense John.

These days small processing chips are fairly capable and use a tiny amount of current, and the camera has one as a 'watchdog' on all the time ready to fire up the main processor(s) when the camera is switched on.