Kodak Easyshare DX4900

So, after years of living in the analog photography world, being held hostage to the photo processors charging for me to remember my holidays, over Christmas I go and take the plunge and buy myself a digital camera. I had an advantage at the time - I was in the US, where the roads are wider, the grass is greener, and the prices are cheaper... But which one. Such as dazzling array. megapixels, optical zoom, digital zoom, compact flash, memory sticks... what to choose. The first thing I wanted was a standard memory card format. That rules out sony with their memory stick, a proprietry format that may or may not succeed. (we all know that Sonys ...

Christmas 2002, running into the January Sales 2003, just the right time for big boys' toys, and me and Mrs D flash the plastic in an extravagant gesture designed to bring endless pleasure to our hedonistic sides... Or, Mr and Mrs D go Xmas shopping... In the dog end days following the temporary flush of excitement which always comes with the Yuletide festival (why do we always fall for the marketing ploy?), me and Mrs D decided that the time was right to treat ourselves for a change, as we'd got a fair bit of dosh put aside, just going to waste and were eager to avail ourselves of some nice new shiny bright goodies. All was quiet and ...