Back somtime around October or November I had blogged about getting a digital camera. For my continued work on DecoyMusic, Aaron agreed to hook me up with a digital camera. Well shortly afterward Aaron hoped on a tour for about 6-7 weeks and right before he left he ordered it. But for whatever reason, it never showed up. His credit card was never charged.
Time for Round 2. Aaron made another attempt to order said camera and again something goofed. So finally on his third try he got things down and finally got the order placed. Well on Thursday the package showed up on my doorstep.
As for camera itself? It’s better than I expected. Back in October when I first started looking for potential cameras, I settled on the Canon SD500. I really like Canon’s digital cameras in general and my buddy Rick had a similar model, but I digress. When I was doing my research, I was looking for a 4-5 Megapixel camera and like I said settled on the SD500. I swear I remember seeing it as a 5.0MP camera, but looking at review on Steve’s Digicams dated 3/30/05, they say it’s a 7.1. Either way, I win. It’s a great little point and shoot camera. It’s small and fits in my pocket. I was quite surprised with the video it shoots as well. My few tests looked nice even at full screen on my 19″ LCD.
Along with the camera, I also got a 1GB memory card for it. At the max quality settings, that’s over 300 pictures. If I change it from SuperFine to Fine, I get something like 580+ pictures. Makes the 32MB card they include with the camera look pretty small in comparison.
Now that I have a digital camera, I expect I will be uploading a lot more photos to my gallery. Maybe I’ll have to get a Flickr account too.
