No subsidy but a camera

I was hoping to get a 20.000 Euro subsidy for a screenplay. Because that's how we make movies in Germany - we use subsidy programs to develop a script, then film subsidies for actually shooting it. German production companies usually don't take any risks and spend about zero money in development. Neither do the broadcasting companies. Nobody does but the writers. Sit down for a couple of weeks, write your treatment and then try to get money from the state while figuring out how to pay your tax prepayments, your rent and your rabbits food who of course doesn't eat carrots but chicory. It's a bad system and I'm sick of it. 

At the moment the only good things in my live are my wife Caren and the Canon EOS 400D she came home with yesterday. I had been going on for a couple of months of how much I loved to have a SLR. Actually since our trip to Namibia last december. Now she got one for me and I'm hoping to find out how to use it right.