Electric Josh

So this space's venerable Nikon Coolpix 3100 abruptly died. It did so by refusing to acknowledge that batteries inserted into it had any charge in them, this despite these same batteries measuring quite full with a voltmeter and powering any other AA-size battery powered device quite nicely. At any rate, we were delighted to discover that not only were we entitled to a store credit of the original purchase price of this camera (which had, to its credit, shot a couple of thousand pictures in its year or so of life without too much fuss), but—and this really shouldn't have been a surprise at all—that digital cameras are significantly cheaper than they were a year ago. Now we have a Canon Powershot A85, which promises to solve a number of problems that we had with the previous camera, the most annoying of which (aside from eventually breaking) was that the lens was tiny: smaller than your thumbnail—and this made low-light photography pretty much impossible. We'll see with this new one.
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