Helena turns 17 at the end of this month (on the 22nd). For months, Bill and I planned to get her a new camera for her birthday and I have been researching and researching to try to find the very best one in a price we could afford. I would LOVE to buy an SLR camera for her, but that is just out of the budget. So, I began researching what's known as 'cross over' cameras. They are still point-n- shoots, but they look a lot more like SLRs and have a lot of manual usage ability. They aren't much more expensive than traditional point-n-shooters, so I found that I could make room in the budget for one!
I found just the one I wanted to buy at the local Costco. Bill and I talked it over and decided to give her the camera early. She is currently in a digital photography class that is only one semester long. There was no sense in making her suffer another three weeks with her broken down old camera, when she needed this one for the class. So, on Friday, we stopped by Costco on our date night and picked up the camera, along with some gallons of milk. On the pretext of sending her out to the car to unload the milk, I hid in the spare room with the window open so I could record her reaction when she saw the camera box in the car.
She absolutely LOVES the camera and is having a blast trying out all the amazing features on it. I am quite impressed with the sharp images and quality of both speed shots and super up close shots. And it'll do panoramic shots! NOW I WANT ONE! Hee, hee, hee!
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