I've got my camera!! Wooooohooo!

Oh my! Thank you Ron and Cathy.

That is definitely the camera and it's great to have a manual thanks Cathy.

It's a bit scary now, because there is so much information I don't know where to start. Begining to wonder what I've let myself in for.  

Hi all, I am around but just been to France for an hour to make sure Bradley Wiggins stays in yellow in the Tour de France

I also looked for the manual for this cracking little camera and came up with the same link as Cath. It's a 2.5 mb file so will not take long to down load, a bit longer to print unless you have access to a laser printer at work maybe. But it ceratinly looks like a good little toy. As you said earlier Debbie, for now just set it to AUTO and blaze away and you will get the hang of the zoom controls etc. Point it at anything in the house, you don'y have to go outside, you will be amazed once you start playing what fun things you have in the house that you never really noticed before. Set yourself little challenges....kitchen items, bathroom items, cat, dog, family.....loads to be going a. Then when you get out at the weeknd you will have a little better knowledge of where the controls are and what they do. You can't lose now, you have youer camera and card so blast away, drop them onto your PC / laptop and then format the card....doing this with the card 'in camera' is the preferred method. how to do this will be in the manual somewhere. Don't know what size card you have but it will be monety well spent to buy another. On a full batery charge you should get somewhere in the region of 230-240 shots. I note someone has already directed you to a review but here is another one which gives a 'recommended'conclusion

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/samsungv700/9

seems to be the same one as you already have

But thats enough for you to digest for now so get snapping and above all enjoy it. I've been doing this for 40 years and still get as much pleasure now as I did when I first started

Excuse the tryping and sellung mistaxe but my fingers and brain don't always coincide

For right now - just use the camera on auto until you are used to the feel of it, the focal lengths and what you enjoy photographing.  Plenty of time to worry about anything else (you may never need or want to!) that's the beauty of having a "point and shoot" camera.

Don't worry about double posts - we can remove them for you - this usually happens if you "refresh" the page, so rather always click on "Latest Posts"  in the left column!!

This advert happened to be at the top of one of the POE pages - I can't vouch for it but it looks like a great idea on the surface anyway.  Anyone got any comments to make about it?

 http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/?i1&gclid=CJC9heLxlLECFTMhtAodql05lQ

Thanks Vince. That's the same link Mick posted earlier I think, and it read pretty well to me.

I'm gonna bore you all rigid with my pics come Monday.  Haha.  

Dave says>>>I've been doing this for 40 years and still get as much pleasure now as I did when I first started

I know exactly what you mean Dave! lol

Ha Ha Ha     has anyone ever told you that are a comedian Ron.......if so i think they were lying ! ! ! ! ! He He He

But you're not wrong