Cameras

If you know me, you know I like to take pictures. A lot. If you don't know me, you might have gathered that from all the pictures on this blog. I have two cameras -- a point and shoot and a digital SLR. And while I don't know how to use all the features on either of those cameras, I can at least take some decent pictures.

That's all to establish that I can operate a camera. Last night at the Keith Urban concert, though, I wanted to take a picture with my camera phone to send a mocking picture to my brother. (He believes that if you actually sell records, you aren't a real artist or something.) But I couldn't figure out how to make the thing zoom. I could take a sepia picture. Or a picture with a different f-stop. I could change the lighting. And the flash. But I couldn't make the stupid phone zoom. I finally figured it out this morning when I played with it more.

My point is, though, that I hate how cell phone companies want everything to be so complicated. It matters more to them that you be able to say that you can take a picture in sepia than it does to actually be able to figure out how to zoom in on something. And that's a problem.

However, the zoom function is now working well and my friend took a picture with her phone so that I could send that mocking text to my brother. Whew.