I stole this camera thanks to Uncle Fester who pointed me at Amazon. Sucker was half-price and arrived in a single day, just in time for my Orient Express Tour which commences Sunday. My old Canon point-and-shoot ISUS (which I bought in the Singapore airport in the spring of 2006 for my first trip to China) is with my daughter capturing a term in Florence. I hate capturing life’s key moments on a Blackberry Bold smartphone camera — most of which come out looking like smeared crap and are only acceptable for UFO sightings, citizen eyewitness news, and sexting offenses.
No, Nova Roma, Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul deserve 12 megapixels, so I hit the Amex and am now ready to go capture some scenes and clog up my Flickr stream.
Here’s some stuff from today’s walk-in-lieu-of-lunch. Cotuit in January is not scenic — sort of like living in a depressing black and white Swedish movie — but you take what you get.
Oh, and I continue to like GDGT.com‘s blog gadget of gadgets that let’s me list what consumer electronic bling I am packing. For me, any kind of gadget is better than antidepressants. Feel blue? Buy an iPod. Want some joy in your life? Buy a Slingbox. GDGT let’s you capture that and more. And Ryan and Peter and Barry are good guys who put up with Project Mayhem at CES when our “party” got a little out of control.
These cameras rock! I’m on my third one (an SD1100 8MP, currently). I carry it with me all the time, and am always amazed at the quality of the photos. And even better, the movies are of remarkable quality; almost better than my old Sony DV cam (and a heck of a lot easier to get the movies off of too).
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David, just went through your Flickr photostream, and it’s a regular one-man, near-real-time, freaking AFP-Getty-Black Star. If it’s the Canon SD780IS feeding this, it appears to do remarkably well on still life and night street photography.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/churbuck/
It is a supernice little tourist camera. Thank heavens I brought it.