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It was getting increasingly awkward as time went on, and it is now nigh on impossible for me to press the shutter-release on my camera — a seemingly simple task is elevated to the rank of “bloody difficult” by the slight weakening of my right index finger. This weakening isn’t a huge amount, as I can still grip things fairly effectively and wagging is still very much a viable activity, but pressing that little button is too much for my frigid digit to manage without me having to hold the camera at a weird angle and therefore render the resulting photo useless to anyone but lovers of the abstract.

The solution? Spend more cash!!!

Seriously, though, I’ve been looking into different cameras and have pinned my hopes on being able to use a ‘pistol grip’ alternative for my future photography related shenanigans. More specifically, the Sanyo VPC-HD1000 which, as you may notice, is primarily a comcorder with still picture taking capabilities — I settled on this make and model after a good few days of research, reading reviews and forums and, finally, finding one for a decent price. As it happened, I ordered for it for the same amount (minus a pound) that I had sold my old MacBook for two hours earlier — I like the symmetry to that.

So hopefully my Flickr account won’t sit idly by in the future and I shall finally have something that I deem worthy enough to upload to Vimeo. But I think David Bailey can still rest easy …