Still learning about cameras...

And then there were 10!

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Monday, February 22. Typical Kihei day, sun, sun, some cloud, then sun.

Tuesday was a quiet day for us. Ian has a very bad cold and is laying low. Except... in the morning Ian and Judy took a cab to the Grand Hotel in Wailea and had a nice walkabout and sampled their ice-cream while there. [He must be on the mend.]

Fellette and I had left earlier and had gone snorkeling at one of Fellette's favourite spots, down at Ulua beach. She missed a snorkeling companion as I stayed ashore and watched for sharks and Tsunamis and caught up on phone messages.

THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ANYBODY WITH A DIGITAL CAMERA: Read carefully.

Yesterday, when we were at the beach I took a few shots that I later downloaded. Now please understand that when I travel with my computer, I download from my camera each day and then reformat my memory card in the camera so that each day I start with an empty card. Or so I thought.

Below are some of the 22 pictures that I downloaded yesterday afternoon...

Napoleon's Tomb in Paris, photo taken August 2009.

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Ian and Doug on Eurostar from England to France, photo taken August 2009.

Fellette on Tahitian Princess, docking in Iceland, photo taken July 2009.

Friend Andy and carpenter at the build, photo taken, November [?] 2009.

Beach at Kihei, photo taken yesterday, February 22, 2010.

Now, my explanation of what I think happened:

When I originally took those pictures, my camera was NOT set on automatic. The dial on my Panasonic DMC-TZ5, had accidentally been turned to some queer setting that I have never knowingly used. But when I downloaded to my computer the dial was set to 'automatic'.

It would appear that my memory card that I thought was blank, has been holding those images tucked away in some corner of it's memory waiting for me to download it while the camera dial is in the position that the photo was taken in. Do you understand that?

Possibly you may have some choice photos tucked away in YOUR camera waiting to see the light of day!

Oddly enough, some of those pictures, now that I see them, I remember taking them, and missed them when I downloaded them. Particularly Napoleon's Tomb, I had to borrow some of Ian's when I did my Album for that trip.