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Just thought I'd have to stick my head around the door, so to speak, and say that London was fantastic. We've started talking about going over at least once a year, this is how tradition starts! We have loads of photos taken with our lovely new camera (a NIkon D40), but I don't have any here. I'll post some later in the week though. Poor girl is half-dying of some form of lurgy picked up, most likely, in the Natural History Museum, which isn't the best place to visit during school holidays, I'll just tell you now.

I thought I'd say a little about the camera, for those interested (and I'm assuming that most people on this site have some interest in photography, right? ). It's an entry level Digital SLR and probably one of the cheapeast. It's low resolution for a DSLR (6MP), has only three autofocus points and no in-body autofocus motor and doesn't have an LCD display with shooting information on top like many higher-end DSLRs.

Does all that sound bad? I don't think so; not for someone getting into DSLRs for the first time and looking to trade up from a standard digital camera. Our last camera was a Canon S2IS, a nice camera with plenty of features, but the lack of responsiveness (while not any worse than other similar cameras) was a pain. There could often be a half second lag between button press and picture taking, especially if avoiding the flash. Frustrating.

In contrast, the SLR is very responsive; click-click-click. Using manual zoom and often manual focus as well gives a very good experience, feeling very connected to the photograph as it's taken. Conclusion? We love it. We're exactly the sort of people it's aimed at, I guess.