Camera related regrets/tangents

I am really not one to regret things you know, and when I do regret things it usually is stuff that doesn't necessarily have a huge effect on my life ie. its useless stuff I am bitching about more than regretting, really. Having said that, lets begin the tirade.

1. I regret that when I bought my Digital camera, I did not think about getting one with a black and white setting. Do cameras even come with this capability? to take black and white digital photos? I don't know, but i sure wish i had asked someone before I bought my camera. Cuz I would seriously love to have that tool available to me.

2. I regret that that I could not take my camera out onto the streets of Karachi at any point. The only point I took my camera out other than people's houses was at an engagement party in a wedding hall and at the beach about an hour away from Karachi. The truth is, that such an act is just too dangerous. You're basically asking for trouble if you're with a bunch of guys or family flashing pictures with a digi cam; people get killed over fake jewellery much less a camera worth thousands of rupees. It really sucks though. Because there is so much in Karachi I would have liked to capture, so much that I could have documented but was not able to. Sometimes, reality bites.

On a different note, I saw a dragonfly in our apartment building yesterday; colourful, full of life and prone to resting after buzzing around. I had my camera on me, so I whipped it out - ofcourse, that was when my batteries gave out. I ran into my house, grabbed charged-up batteries and walked out to take some more pics. It had been barely two minutes before I came out. The dragonfly was not on my floor anymore. I pressed the elevator call button and waited to see if perhaps it had made its way into the elevator, the doors clicked open, nothing. Then, just as the doors slowly closed again, I saw it. Smashed, cleanly on the elevator's tiled floor. It looked like it had been sitting still when someone just decided to stomp on it. People suck sometimes.