Our Space Station had a little get together at the Lead Cosmonaut’s house last night. As a result, half the station is mysteriously absent and the other half is wincing at loud noises and shying away from bright lights. I am in the latter group as well, but for different reasons – I slept badly on my neck, and woke up with a very bad headache. Try explaining this to people who are hung over, though, and you’ll get a lot of blank stares and sly winks. It’s true, regardless of their vodka-fueled haze – I have a bad headache. Even if I DID get hangovers (which I don’t), the insignificant amount I drank last night (two store-mixed novelty shooters with the potency of fermented Kool-Aid) certainly didn’t cause this kind of suffering, since I not only drove home but was fine right up until my alarm clock went off. Ow, my head. Could you please read this a little quieter? Thanks.
It is time for a new digital camera. My current one, an HP 707R, was brought forth from the rectal cavity of the very devil himself and it is time to cleanse myself of this unholy piece of garbage in favour of something that oh I don’t know, maybe takes pictures instead of delivering image after image of nothing but black.
I’ve narrowed it down to five options, each more meticulously analyzed than the last. The current forerunners are:
- The Nikon Coolpix S10
- Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1
- Canon PowerShot A710 IS
- Canon PowerShot S3 IS
- Canon PowerShot SD700 IS Digital ELPH
The camera I end up with has to be relatively small (I have tiny mutant elf hands); it must have image stabilization (I really do love caffeine), and it has to take a damn fine picture (because I can never have too many self portraits and pictures of my cats). I’ve read all the online reviews and have feedback on the S3 and the SD700 from people I trust, but I still can’t decide between the five. Help!
There’s one camera that I really do want – the Fujifilm Finepix Z5FD – but they pushed the release date back to March and I can’t wait that long. Ideally, I’ll have a new camera in my grubby tiny hands before I go to Vegas. I haven’t exactly asked Santa for one, but I think I’m getting some Christmas money from my mom which’ll go towards taking incriminating photos of her son-in-law naked. Weiner shots are totally awesome. Would you like to see some? Go on, treat yourself. You deserve it.
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For what it’s worth I just picked up the Canon PowerShot S2 IS, which is pretty close to it’s successor the S3 and I have to say that with what little I’ve done with it to far, it’s a really nice camera. The only complaint I have so far is that the lcd screen, although articulated, is rather small.
weiner pics! w00t!
Where did you find the S2 IS and what did you pay? :)
I got the S3 IS for my bday a few weeks ago and I love it. The LCD on the S3 is a little bigger than on the S2 and S1, but I wouldn’t say it’s a tiny camera. It’s still amazing!
I had a finepix (not as high end, but a fuji finepix) and it was CRAP. I sent it back to the factory twice and it still never worked right.
I just got a Canon A630 for Christmas (well, a few days before)!!
Josh – I’m a little late replying, but I got mine from Amazon and paid $279 US (I’m in the US as well).
Thanks Rachel, was just curious, was considering buying the S2 to save money as it is very similar to the S3
I heart Canons. My first was a PowerShot and it is still going strong five years and many impacts later — and it takes nice pictures. I recently got a Canon SLR (the Rebel XT) and it is also awesome. Go Canon!
(I have a friend who bought two Sonies and had to return each one several times and finally gave up and bought a Canon and is also happy. Anecdotal evidence, yes, but … :)