Plug for the Canon Ixus 50

I bought it when I started taking blogging lessons.

My teacher, Jeremy, would come to the flat and just having his calm presence there helped me. He taught me to be patient - press a button and wait calmly while the computer sorts itself out. He would run his finger slowly along lines of print, then go back and do it again. I do this all the time now. I don't think it's "uncool" to be careful and painstaking.

He seemed to delight in all my mysterious equipment, all the different lights and menus, so I stopped being (quite so) scared of them.

The Canon Ixus 50 is tiny and weights nothing. I carry it with me at all times, in a pink leather Ipod holder. I've only got one battery and one tiny black plastic thing that has 256 mb printed on it, don't know what it's called but I know it stores the data.

These click into place as smoothly as a lipstick case.

The screen is huge - 3 cm x 4 cm. The automatic flash works brilliantly. You just plug everything into the back of the computer, a little button on the camera lights up blue and you download everything in a nanosecond.

I've taken some photos that have amazed me. The colour quality is stupendous. I will take zillions of photos to make sure I get one good one. Weird thing though, the best photo is usually first, second or third.

I've also had an enormous amount of fun, hauling my giant plug around and photographing it all over England. Here are some small sized examples of some of the photos I've taken:










Update at 2:00 p.m.

Printers for Digitial Cameras

I live a five minute walk from:
- Snappy Snaps, a "photo specialist" shop
- a large Boots the Chemist with a do-it-yourself digital photo printer

I own the HP 4110 All-in-one printer.
- with HP colour ink and high quality Kodak paper, prints come out beautifully. There is no room in my life for another piece of high tech equipment.

Unless someone's post makes a compelling case for one.