New camera!

Christmas came a bit early this year! When my mom asked me what I wanted for a gift I suggested a new camera. Today was the day we went and did a little shopping...

I've had a trusty Olympus C-3000 Zoom since we moved into this house, basically - that's about 5 or more years old. It is still a good camera - but I wanted more zoom (like 10x instead of 3x), better movie mode (> 30 seconds), and more responsive. It has basically become dated and that's not surprising since this is tech we're talking about.

After doing a bit of review and reading on Digital Photography Review, I settled on a few cameras that appeared to be in the class I was looking at. After playing around with the Canon PowerShot S3 IS, along with the equivalent Sony and others, I settled on the Canon.

So far so good. We shot my mom's Christmas picture, printed it out on my photo printer and she's ready to go. (Old fashioned - she still cuts and pastes the photo... and then brings it to a copier business to duplicate!!)

The camera is snappy, movies (as far as I've been able to test them) are quite good, images appear good, and there's lots of features to explore. I think the only downside is that when shooting a movie and taking still pictures (yes, you can do that), the movie blanks out and you get the click sound. Other than than, it's been a pleasure playing with it.