Okay, first of all I'm almost 32 weeks pregnant with DC3 so be gentle. I'm a seething mass of hormones. :o And happy Easter, if you're celebrating in some fashion.
Here's the thing. I am hideous with electronics. They always break around me, no matter how careful I am. I'd list all the laptops, tablets, and phones that have had a short life around me but it would be depressing.
I broke my previous phone sometime last year and DH lent me his during the day as I am at home with the DC and we don't have a landline. It had a pretty good camera on it, as far as phone cameras go.
I take a lot of pictures for FB, etc, of the DC as my best friends and parents live pretty far away and don't see them often. I used the phone camera for this.
DH was always bugging me to use one of the digital cameras we have because he says that phone pictures are crap and we might want to print them someday. I said I would use the camera if we went somewhere but most of the pictures I take of the DC are day to day things...DD making a mess like the little monkey she is, or DS reading the book his grandmother sent him. Things like that. I wouldn't want a copy of the vast majority of these photos lying around so printing them isn't an issue, I just snap them because they're cute and it's fun for the grandparents to see. Plus, it's easier for me to use the phone as I can adjust the light or whatever.
Anyway, for Christmas he got me a new phone of my own (which is still working, woo hoo) and...a camera. He says the camera can be set up to up load pictures to FB or Instagram or whatever. The camera on my new phone isn't very good at all.
I tried out the actual camera a few times but I can't edit the pictures and they just don't seem to be very good...red eyes etc. I don't use it, I just snap pictures on my phone and try to edit out the blurriness.
Today I was trying to get a picture of the two DC in their easter outfits on my phone, and it wasn't working. I asked to use his and he got snippy about my not using the camera he bought. I said that it wasn't charged and again reiterated that I didn't really know how to use it and that the pictures inevitably have red eye.
Now we're driving an hour and a half to see his aunt in stony silence over that damn camera, broken only by him telling me that I think the pictures on the phone are good, but they aren't, and "the camera uses a flash so they will have red eye" etc. Why would he want to print them then?
Arghhh. I think we're coming at this from two different angles in that he doesn't like social media. He uses it for work but other than that I think he thinks it's all a bit silly, for lack of a better word. Whereas to me it's a way to keep in contact with people and interact with a few adults every now and then.
I understand he wants some good photos of his children and he was being nice to get the phone and camera for me. However I feel (and this is maybe the hormones) that he is being the slightest bit controlling as, many times before, I categorically stated that I did not like using cameras for day to day stuff. I don't know if he knew before buying it that the phone had a bad camera, but I sort of wonder if he did and thought it would "force" me to use the camera.
So AIBU, or is he?