Archiving The Kid's moves

Whew! Drove just about everywhere to buy a certain model of a Sony digital video camera. For archiving The Kid's youth -- honest!

Went back to the shop where a co-worker's fiance works. Unfortunately, the model he showed us last week had since been sold, and was the last of its kind.

He looked up the inventories of the other branches of his store, and found a display model that was available. He phoned over, and they said that they weren't sure all the pieces were there -- but were a bit unhelpful, and didn't want to box it up and transfer it across stores. He also suggested the Sony factory outlet store, out by the Brisbane airport; phoned out there, and had a friend hold one for us, for the day.

We drove out to the other branch (which was reasonably close to the Sony outlet store, anyhow), but their model was missing the battery and pretty much everything else. So, we gave it a miss.

Went out to the Sony store, and got it for slightly cheaper than what we were expecting, based on the guy's phone call. Got it home, played around with it, and took some shots of The Kid and (un-enthusiastically, on her part) The Lady. As I may have mentioned before, I'm trying to record The Kid's body language and movement, and her tone of voice and how she talks (or babbles), across all of her developmental stages -- up to and including teen-age years. So, I needed to get some captures now, before I missed any stages.

Discovered it was missing the cleaning cloth, the remote control, and had the wrong cable included (for connecting it to the t.v., for playing back directly). But, I'm still pleased. Will have to phone the shop on Monday to ask about the missing pieces, and drive out there this weekend to pick them up. A bit of a nuisance, as it's a 20-minute (??) drive. But, more reliable than asking someone to mail them out to us.

Still: solid, and because it's discontinued, a verra good price. :)


We have now entered the Age of Video.


--GG