“I don’t know anything about compact cameras, bugger, they are all balls! Even the IXUS!”

The Harpadon nehereus with beer. Duncan was in possession of his Canon IXUS.. shiny silver and all!

“Macro mode, bugger, macro mode! Shaaaks!”

*snap*

This is how it looked straight off the camera:

“WOW! WOW, bugger, WOW! Food photography! WOW!”

Wasn’t the best of lighting conditions, but not too bad either. Camera on the  macro+*auto* modes. Colour correction and this:

Bad. Bad. The image is very grainy. 100 percent zooms:

Eeks! All balls!

“Bugger, compact cameras are awesome for birthday photos.. facebook and blogs. But you won’t be able to sell these photos on Shutterstock!”

Off the camera:

And corrected:

Canon IXUS, a good gizmo for the blogger.