Digital Camera

I bought myself a digital camera today.

It's probably the most low-end camera you could imagine, approximately the size of the insert-delete-home-end-pgup-pgdown key block on an average keyboard. Well, slightly larger.

Obviously the quality isn't very good. In fact, I suspect that many cell phone cameras are of better quality (I wouldn't know, I don't have a cell phone with camera).

So why did I buy this thing? Because of its price, which is so low that it's laughable. And, well, because of the size—it can be stashed away nicely.

Only I just found out that the battery life isn't very good. I had connected it to my laptop for a bit more than an hour, and now it doesn't power up anymore unless it is connected. According to the manual, it should not use the battery while it's connected to a USB port, but I guess they're wrong.

Something else that isn't very good is the English translation they've been doing. Mooha.

Thank you for purchasing this digital camera. It not only can take photos but also has the built-in camera functions. This camera is equipped with a 64Mbit built-in SDRAM; if you want the photos in the camera to be download into the computer ,you are only required to connect the USB cable; and if you want to use the built-in PC camera functions, you can hold the video conference via the Internet to have a face-to-face online chat with others.

... is exactly what the back-cover of the wrapper contained. With no typos. No, not with typos in spaces and commas either.

I do have one grunt with this thing, and that is that the 'viewfinder' (sic) is totally useless; if I want to take a picture with the thing, I have to point the camera towards the general area of my subject, cross my fingers, and hope for the best. But, well. It works, and while the pictures aren't very good, they're not that bad, either. I guess that's all I could ask for 14.40 euros.