5500 - And Counting!

It started with this -

and more than 5500 images later -

it ended with this!

I had the laptop with us on our holiday and I thought I'd done a good job of downloading the pictures regularly but today I found a few more memory cards with images to add to the library. I think I have them all on the computer and now I can start the job of deleting the poorest and choosing the best to be printed.  It's going to be a huge job - - - !!  I know Sandra and Clarence are trying to do the same :))

The real question is:  how many pictures of elephants / zebras/ wildebeests / giraffes do we really need????

Cameras

The great debate about whether or not to buy a zoom lens for our DLSR camera has come to an end.  We knew it would be quite costly to buy a 300mm lens - not in our budget right now!  So Bob spent a day investigating and we now own this Panasonic DMC 12X Zoom camera.  It's small, light, easy to use and can zoom to 360mm so hopefully we can still get some good animal safari pictures.  And it was (semi-) affordable :))  I was going for a Canon model but the one that's comparable in zoom has an annoying flash that pops up every single time you turn the camera on!  Bad design feature that will surely affect their sales, I think.  Kelsey's mom has one similar to this and she was a great salesman and sold Bob on getting a Panasonic.  You can read some reviews here .  So far the video function is awesome - we love the zoom while recording feature.  Hopefully the 2 batteries will provide enough charge, especially on Kilimanjaro!