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Straw poll

Ok, hands up who believed me for a minute when I wrote:

I don’t even have the £480 for the basic (body plus 18-55mm lens) kit

?

Anyone?

Well, it’s true. I can’t afford it. Doesn’t mean I wasn’t going to go out and get one, though, does it? It is, after all, almost a year since I splashed out on a “big” camera which means the Kodak P850 (5.1MP) lasted longer as the main camera than the Kyocera Finecam M410 (4MP).

It helps (me) if I think of it as a bout of retail therapy to take my mind of the state of my innards.

I was served by young “Gnomy” who, as I mentioned to her, is younger than my first Canon, an AE-1 I bought when I was, ooh, fifteen or so, I think. Amazingly - truly amazingly - in spite of her working in Jessops (who have a pricematch deal, even with suspect internet sites, btw) she actually knows about cameras. Yes, I know. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Especially in view of my previous dealings with the chain (there was no sign of Buffoon Boy).. She’s hoping to get a Canon 30D as a combined Christmas/Birthday present so I can only hope - for her sake - that Santa has deeper pockets than I.