As I really like to take pictures and share them on my Flickr-Account, I felt for more than a year that I am getting to the limits of what my little Pentax Optio can deliver. And so I was looking out which “proper” mirror reflex camera I would buy. After researching on the web and asking friends for advise, I finally consumed one yesterday: The Canon EOS 400D.
Buying such an instrument nowadays is not really “plug & play”, but rather feels like a seminar at university: software to install, manuals to go through, maintenance procedures to understand etc. There is a “quick start” booklet that I went through, however got stuck at the step “add CF memory card”. I was screening and screening the whole package for half an hour which includes everything else like a lense, cables, CD-ROMs and tons of up-selling brochures – but no CF card.
Going through the content of deliverabes on the package, it indeed does not mention this memory card. And I wonder how Canon can be so stupid as the camera is basically useless without it. Tomorrow, I will get one with 2 GB for around EUR 25,- which is not so much of an issue, but buying the package on a Saturday and not having the “instant gratification” for first usage is indeed a unwarranted disappointment.
Sometimes I really wonder if such big companies who are doing very, very complex things very right, will ever stop screwing up with the most simple ones …
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