> In the category of "nobody cares but I'm going to tell you all about it
> anyway": I just bought a new camera.
>
> For those of you not following this saga, my previous camera has been
> annoying me for years. It has a number of problems:
>
> * It's powered by 4x AA batteries. The batteries will run flat after
> about 90 minutes, regardless of WHETHER THE CAMERA IS TURNED ON! >_<
> Yes, you heard me right. If you put batteries in, wait a while, you will
> find them stone-dead. That can't be right...
>
> * It's a 3 megapixel camera, but each and every time you put the
> batteries back in, you have to tell it the date isn't 2002, and you have
> to tell it to *not* shoot everything at 1 megapixel. Because that's why
> you bought a 3 megapixel camera, right?
>
> * Unless you're standing in the Sahara desert at noon on midsummer's
> day, the camera will whine and complain that there's insufficient light.
> It will demand that you use the flash. If you do not use the flash, the
> images will come out shaky as hell, and/or a dark orange / brown colour.
>
> * Paradoxically, in direct sunlight, everything turns a weird shade of
> blue.
>
> * The camera point-blank *refuses* to focus on very small objects. If
> something is less than a foot away from the lens, the camera will just
> focus on the stuff behind it instead.

Yes, these are the exact same reasons why I got a dSLR (and I'm on my 
third now). Welcome to a hobby that can get very expensive very quickly!

> So anyway, when I got home from Christmas, I discovered that my landlord
> had refunded me THREE THOUSAND POUNDS that they accidentally overcharged
> me since I moved it. (??!) So naturally, I did what any normal human
> would have done: I bought a Nikon D3300 digital single lens reflex camera.

There's only one thing I can suggest, and that is to return it to the 
shop, get a refund, and order a Canon one instead :-)

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