On the screen there's a death, there's a rustle of cloth and a sickly voice calling me handsome.

I've been running wild on the Digital Photography Review Canon Talk forum. I just keep forgetting that the 'Merkins know an Ixus 50 as an SD400. I must revive some of the ex-cameras lying around ... I liked this thread on nightclub cameras.

Why digital cameras are so bad at purple. If you can't be bothered with the Flash presentation, they claim that digital cameras only reach down the spectrum as far as blue, so violet is missing entirely. And that their Photoshop plugin can fix this, presumably by educated guesswork. Does anyone know more about this? Someone linked to how they fix it by hand.

Two new generic batteries just arrived for my camera, ten quid, 1000mAh (the Canon standard ones are 700mAh). I'm quite pleased.

This camera is definitely deceased (translation of this). That steel Ixus case isn't actually truckproof. Your camera or your life!

In non-photography, someone has started a doll wiki. arkady and I are trying to drag the dollie kids into it. And redcountess and I bought a bed yesterday. The timing is awful, but so's the old mattress — there's actually springs sticking out of it. I also got a pic of Liz out of the house!