Diary Tuesday 26th April 2016

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A chaotic frustrating day. After my usual Tuesday bill paying duties on behalf of my Mum, I got home from the newsagents just in time for the arrival of my new camcorder. Naturally, I was keen to check it out and use it right away, but just about everything conspired to slow me down. Nuisance phone calls plagued me twice before I got it out of the box. Then the packaging proved impregnable until I got the scissors out. I put batteries in and a HD card and switched it on to find it was hitting me with screen static that convinced me it was broken until I realized it was the HD card not being powerful enough. Fortunately I have a bigger one and that worked OK. I had to call to the library but as it seemed to be a nice day I planned to get some footage to play with afterwards. Incredibly, as I left the library it was actually snowing – I did get a brief opportunity to shoot some footage and comment on it too – essential to me for testing out the sound quality and I was pleased with the results so my next venture will be making actual usable film material and editing it, hopefully without interruption by anything from sales calls to the next ice age. Arthur Chappell