Digital Camera ahoy!
With exams finished and teaching practically over for the semester, on Friday I ventured into the city to start pricing digital cameras, have a look at the range and basically have a look around in all the camera and electrical shops.
I started off the day thinking Canon or Sony or one of the big camera brands (Pentax, Olympus, etc) and thinking somewhere around the 3-4 megapixel resolution, and also something that was compact in size and not terribly chunky.
By the end of the afternoon, I'd schlepped through about 10 stores and had written down a stack of things. I'd narrowed down the field and the model and was going to run an errand for my Dad at some sort of travel info shop, when I stopped into my 3rd Kodak franchise camera shop for the afternoon, and started talking to the sales guy who looked like Adrien Brody. Score! Except he had really bad hair and didn't look quite as soulful :P
And we talked for a long long time. Many different deals were made, a few lies were told (I can't pay that much, I don't have a credit card or a lot of money in my account!!) and about half an hour of solid bargaining and a bit of theatrical sighing and pacing, I walked out of the shop with an Olympus mju 400.
Pretty cute, huh?
So this is my new little baby. I also bought a 128mb memory card for it and a proper padded bag so that when I'm on tour it won't get too smushed up.
eta: I should actually say that the specs are: 4MP, 3x optical zoom/4x digital zoom, metallic alloy casing (ie, weatherproof) and really compact. I love :D
I started off the day thinking Canon or Sony or one of the big camera brands (Pentax, Olympus, etc) and thinking somewhere around the 3-4 megapixel resolution, and also something that was compact in size and not terribly chunky.
By the end of the afternoon, I'd schlepped through about 10 stores and had written down a stack of things. I'd narrowed down the field and the model and was going to run an errand for my Dad at some sort of travel info shop, when I stopped into my 3rd Kodak franchise camera shop for the afternoon, and started talking to the sales guy who looked like Adrien Brody. Score! Except he had really bad hair and didn't look quite as soulful :P
And we talked for a long long time. Many different deals were made, a few lies were told (I can't pay that much, I don't have a credit card or a lot of money in my account!!) and about half an hour of solid bargaining and a bit of theatrical sighing and pacing, I walked out of the shop with an Olympus mju 400.
Pretty cute, huh?
So this is my new little baby. I also bought a 128mb memory card for it and a proper padded bag so that when I'm on tour it won't get too smushed up.
eta: I should actually say that the specs are: 4MP, 3x optical zoom/4x digital zoom, metallic alloy casing (ie, weatherproof) and really compact. I love :D