Review

Is there a compact digital camera that could work better than the camera on my smartphone? That’s the question I needed to ask before taking one on my travels. I’ve had a couple of budget compact cameras before. They were marketed as having 20MP resolution, or somesuch, but, unlike smartphones, they didn’t have processing hardware capable of handling that resolution, so the end result was usually crap. The Canon IXUS 285 HS, being a ~£300 dedicated camera device, should be somewhat better.

This book was recommended to me by a friend of Rev. John Henson (the author), who was a minister at a local church. The Gay Disciple: Jesus’ friend tells it his own way is a pseudo-fictional work, a set of stories around the Gospels from the perspective of lesser-known disciples of Jesus. The main character is Lazarus, who some believe was the ‘beloved’ disciple referred to in the Gospel according to John.