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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7839281" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>If you have big hands, then a genuine [and very expensive] Olympus hand grip might feature on your birthday or Christmas list at some point, as well as a bag to carry the kit safely. These things are for the future but remember, camera on a shelf doesn't take pictures. Also don't be shy pulling the trigger because unlike film cameras of old, it costs nothing to take pictures or videos. If you don't like them, delete them in the camera or after downloading and backing them up. Do not leave thousands of pictures on the SD card as a permanent storage medium because one day you may lose the card or it might even fail to work. Every few weeks, take the card out and insert it in your computer and copy across [or you can do this using the USB cable supplied. Back up to a cloud service as a minimum. This could be OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Dropbox or iCloud, it doesn't matter. All provide a good amount of storage free of charge. I also back up my whole computer, including photos, to an external backup drive. Both Windows and Apple OS have this feature built in, so no need for any costly extra apps. I have Apple so there's a 'TimeMachine' working in the background doing hourly incremental backups. The clouds upload automatically as well and I don't do a thing once set up initially. </p><p></p><p>Sorry if this is all old hat and boring. No need to follow any of it except I strongly advise downloading and backing up. Otherwise if something fails you will lose everything. I had the external drive on which I keep all my photos fail about six months ago. Lost them all on that drive. Not an issue though, because I just plugged in a spare external USB drive and backed up from Time Machine. If that had failed then I could re download from the Cloud, which I did when I changed to a new computer a couple of years ago. That took a few days due to the internet speed but worked flawlessly.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, don't overload your head with this stuff. Take your time and enjoy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7839281, member: 718"] If you have big hands, then a genuine [and very expensive] Olympus hand grip might feature on your birthday or Christmas list at some point, as well as a bag to carry the kit safely. These things are for the future but remember, camera on a shelf doesn't take pictures. Also don't be shy pulling the trigger because unlike film cameras of old, it costs nothing to take pictures or videos. If you don't like them, delete them in the camera or after downloading and backing them up. Do not leave thousands of pictures on the SD card as a permanent storage medium because one day you may lose the card or it might even fail to work. Every few weeks, take the card out and insert it in your computer and copy across [or you can do this using the USB cable supplied. Back up to a cloud service as a minimum. This could be OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Dropbox or iCloud, it doesn't matter. All provide a good amount of storage free of charge. I also back up my whole computer, including photos, to an external backup drive. Both Windows and Apple OS have this feature built in, so no need for any costly extra apps. I have Apple so there's a 'TimeMachine' working in the background doing hourly incremental backups. The clouds upload automatically as well and I don't do a thing once set up initially. Sorry if this is all old hat and boring. No need to follow any of it except I strongly advise downloading and backing up. Otherwise if something fails you will lose everything. I had the external drive on which I keep all my photos fail about six months ago. Lost them all on that drive. Not an issue though, because I just plugged in a spare external USB drive and backed up from Time Machine. If that had failed then I could re download from the Cloud, which I did when I changed to a new computer a couple of years ago. That took a few days due to the internet speed but worked flawlessly. Anyhow, don't overload your head with this stuff. Take your time and enjoy. [/QUOTE]
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