resistance to persistence

i bought another camera on the weekend. this one is to replace my original point and shoot, not my slr. i picked up a canon a610. i’ve been looking at it for a while now, the price has been dropping regularly and i was waiting for a $50 costco coupon to happen (only for one week). after the coupon, the price was $270. pretty dang good for nice portable shooter.

• 4x zoom, 5MP
• full set of manual modes (aperature, shutter, manual, etc)
• 2″ flip out tilt screen - great for shooting above people, down low, self-portraits
• great movie recording - good enough for a photo camera at least
• small enough to shove in a large pocket

i’ve been really impressed by canon cameras. if i didn’t already have nikon lenses i would have bought a canon dslr instead of my nikon one. the image quality is great and the controls are really great as well.

so now i’m going to sell my other point and shoot digital, fuji finepix 3800 (review). it’s proven itself really well and i like this camera a lot too. the selling feature that made me have to buy it was the long 6x zoom. at the time i couldn’t afford a long zoom slr, so i wanted to at least get a long zoom p&s. the fuji was the one for me. if you’re interested in buying it from me, leave a comment or email me. if you want to see the quality of the photos, just check my photoblog - 95% of the photos from 2005 were shot using it.

i decided to part with the fuji this year since 1) i now have a long zoom and so many other capabilities in the slr 2) the square body was too wide for me to fit in my jacket when snowboarding and i needed something slimmer. it was perfect for walking around though. but i still needed a p&s since i can’t carry the slr everywhere (parties, concerts, etc) and people tend to freeze up a bit for photos when you shove a big slr in their face. and i want J to have something she can use to take photos as well - the slr is a bit too much for her so far. she’s got a great eye for composition as she proved on a lot of our honeymoon photos. sometimes i couldn’t tell which ones i shot and which ones she took.

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