The day finally came when I had enough funds available to replace the camera I lost nearly a year ago.
My new toy: a Canon PowerShot A95. I’ve only had it for about a day now — Prairie and I picked it up yesterday — so I’ve still got a lot of leaning to go, but so far, I’m very happy with my new lil’ toy. Small enough to fit in a pocket, so I’ll be able to carry it around with me all the time and have it handy at a moments notice, solidly built, lots of options and buttons to learn, a handy little flip-screen display, and 5 megapixel resolution.
Plus, this lil’ guy can even take short video clips! This was something I had to play with, so I made a short little one-minute movie taking a look at a silly little M&M dispenser that Prairie got me. iMovie was able to compress it down to about 1.5Mb, so it shouldn’t take too terribly long to download. There’s not much to it — mostly just me being silly — but it was certainly worth a few minutes of playing around.
Hooray for new toys!
Oh, and Rick — you can come pick up your camera now. Many, many thanks for letting me borrow it for nearly a year!
“Central Reservation (Ibadan Spiritual Life Radio Edit)” by Orton, Beth from the album Plastic Compilation Vol. III (1999, 4:00).