ARGUMENT IN CAMERA'S...ATTN: TARGET TEAM MEMBER

Just returned from Target. Am STILL trying to locate a FILM camera that allows me to point and click. Yes, I know, they don't exist, unless I want to pay more than my monthly house payment and then some.

However using the knowledge I have learned from various sources (and one Professor), I did actually discover that if I turn the flash mode off on a few camera's, that the camera will click, click, click. Of course not using flash mode won't work in many circumstances, but it is better than nothing. Then I discovered many camera's have only a few zoom settings, not the manual zoom. To make a long story longer, I am probably going to go with an Olympus. There was a zoom to 150 and when on action mode and auto flash off, I could hear the click, click click. I didn't buy it today. I'll wait....I'm sure it will be on sale in a week or so.
BUT!!! I ended up getting into a fight with a customer!! This IDIOT butted into my space to "inform" me that HE would show me THE best camera there, and proceeded to walk over to the digital camera's. To try and keep this short, I told him I did not WANT a digital, that I HAVE a digital, but that I prefer film. He was telling me I'm crazy. LITERALLY. Said he is a professional photographer and how the photos are SO much clearer, blah blah blah, with digital.

So I used the tactic of what I felt was a WONDERFUL article, one which I kept by the way, this past week in USA TODAY, about how people are going to be losing precious memories in using digital camera's (by "deleting" all the 'bad" shots, those photos we look at from times long ago, that are so precious to us, the out of focus shots, the cutting off the head shots etc, will never be seen again and future generations will not see a "realistic" portrait of lives lived). How true.

Another point the article made is that people printing pictures from their printers will not have photos that last. That printers do not have the ink that lasts generations. This article said, which I TOTALLY agree with, that people need to get their pictures done in photo labs to ensure not just quality but longevity.

Well, Mr. JERKO said I "TOTALLY" missed the point of the article, after saying it was a bunch of crap, then kept on about the digital. I mentioned (wanting to punch him in the face) how people who I know are in the photo business prefer kodachrome. He gave me a VERY snide look, laugh..saying they know NOTHING about progress etc.

So sense this blog is incredibly long. Suffice it to say we "exchanged" nasty words to one another about 10 minutes, until the store salesman came to "intervene".

Ohhh...Camera's are so fun, I just never knew they inspired such "FEELING"!!! :)