I have one remarkable trait: I’m the worst photographer in the world. My photos are atrocious. And yet I still have to take pictures. Kids, trips, that sort of thing. You have to get a shot of yourself in front of the Eiffel Tower so you can later post it on "Odnoklassniki" (a Russian social network for classmates) with a caption like, "It’s impossible not to fall in love with Paris."
My old philosophy when buying a camera was to get the most expensive point-and-shoot possible, as long as it still fit easily into a jeans pocket. Obviously, that led to the kind of family album you can’t look at without tears. Actually, that was a lie, because like everyone living in the age of digital photography, I don’t have a family album. What you can’t look at without tears is the folder navalny/images/my photos/trips/UAE_2007. So I’ve decided to buy a proper camera. I’m asking the experts for help. It should be, like, professional, but not huge. I definitely don’t need interchangeable lenses—I’m not going to carry them around. And most importantly, I need it to produce miraculously good photos with the absolute minimum of settings, just by mindlessly pressing the button. You post one of those on LiveJournal, and the comments roll in: "Thank you for this photo report," "What beauty," "It feels like spring and freshness are blowing right out of the screen," "Can this really be possible without Photoshop?" and "I’m unfriending all the other photo bloggers." There is such a camera, right? There is, isn’t there?
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