With a high-resolution sensor, nine megapixels and the equivalent of a 28mm to 300mm lens, the S9500 should be all that most people will need to capture high-quality images. Fujifilm describes the FinePix S9500 Zoom as a "bridge" between a compact digital camera and an interchangeable lens SLR. The camera's very long zoom range means that there is little need for extra lenses. There is a flash built in and a hot shoe (flash connection) for an external flash - for low-light work.The camera is rather more compact than an SLR, and Fujifilm claims a fast start-up time of 0.8 seconds. This should enable the S9500 to handle action pictures, and there is a close-up mode as well as a wide range of film speeds. For storage, the camera can handle both the Compact Flash and xD memory card formats.Impressive specifications do not, though, always add up to an equally impressive performance. "Non-smokers don't know what they are missing," he says affably. "But he thought I was terrible." Happily for the assistant, the artist lit up again and has been puffing with gusto ever since.
In fact, he has become the nation's most famous smoker, following a confrontation last month with a Labour MP on BBC radio Hockney is a contented puffer The pleasure, he tells me, is indescribable. If he says the irises of citizens (another favourite word of his) cannot be scanned for an ID card, the chances are they won't be.. When David Hockney gave up smoking after a spell in hospital with heart trouble, his behaviour became so trying his assistant endured the worst three weeks of his existence "I didn't know that at the time," says the painter. Confirms it is co-operating with authorities over investigation into UN contracting procedures Lawyers appointed to conduct internal probe Mr Harris suspended.. The best night of Ian Watmore's life was in May 2002, when he saw Arsenal beat Manchester United at Old Trafford to win the Premiership and celebrated in a bar at Manchester airport.
It's not the kind of admission you would expect from the Government's chief information officer, whose job is to make sure the public sector's notoriously temperamental and expensive computer systems are up to scratch. You might expect someone in charge of the Government's computers to be a bit more, well, geeky. But there is far more to Watmore's job than IT (a term he doesn't like: "I don't recognise 'IT projects' - they are business projects," he says). His team will oversee the Government's controversial identity card and biometric passport schemes, expected to be among the world's most ambitious - and most expensive - database projects. Mr Bailey announces resignation.October: Former Centrica boss Sir Roy Gardner becomes chairman elect. Compass's Scolarest, a supplier to school canteens, criticised.April: second profit warning.July: Peter Harris, head of military services arm ESS, appointed UK chief executive.September: Third profit warning. Granada Media is spun off.2001: a number of Granada's hotel businesses are sold off and Compass relists.2003: sells last hotel business, Travelodge, for £712m.2004: warns on profits after contracts to feed schoolchildren and troops in the Middle East fail to perform as expected.March 2005: Jamie's School Dinners airs on Channel 4.