Put it down and eat your dinner Steve!
The Duran Duran concert was the final straw for me with my Olympus digital camera, a discontinued model. Since Tim Finn is coming in February to play at the Cactus Cafe, I decided that it was time to replace it because I’ll only get one chance before he retires (he’s 58 this year). Somara’s more impressive model is starting to give out too so after a quick budget review, we went shopping inspired by the sale at Fry’s. We went with Best Buy instead. It’s closer to our house and a very helpful guy named Dirk did a great job fielding Somara’s questions (she’s the brains on photography). Sorry Fry’s, your prices are great but your staff is elusive, the cameras are unusable for testing and the store in Austin feels super cluttered.
Oh, I guess it's payback with a mouth full of pastrami.
With some initial research on Somara’s part, Dirk’s assitance and my willingness, we now share a Canon PowerShot SD750 Digital Elph, phew! I wanted something idiot-proof. Dirk said this is idiot-resistant which is equally effective. Somara and I tried out a few shots with the trickle charge in the battery and the puny 32 MB SD card. I think these came out pretty well. My old camera would’ve made them look rather cloudy and don’t get me started on the digital zoom.
Be ready for much better photos and short movies on Picayue this year!