But as you can guess when you most want the technology Murphy strikes! We get out of bed early to go see the dolphins at Monkey Mia. Yes the dolphins are there on the beach. Turn on the camera and the message comes up "No card in camera" . We had left the picture card in the slot in the laptop back in the caravan at Denham. But as luck was with me the old Kodak was under the seat in the car resulting in some great photos, although at 3 MP instead of 5 mp.

Another time I was caught we were in the caves at Narracoorte and the message came up " Change batteries" after just taking a couple of photos with the flash. Where are the spares? They were in the Other Half's hand bag buried in the van.

We took a charger that could work off the cigarette lighter in the car and found it worth its weight in gold for the cameras as the rechargeable batteries work best when fully exhausted.

In summary: The hardest things to photograph – birds.
Second – close ups of flowers as the camera was unsure if it was focusing on the flower or the plant it was growing on.

Barry Castle

[Barry: Try setting the auto focus area to centre spot or same as spot metering area. If the camera is left to decide what should be in focus it will always focus on the closest object which is not necessarily what you want.]