My New Camera

Well my old Sony, which I have been using since 2007 finally kicked the bucket (actually I have owned two different camera's of the same model). It was a great camera, but to be honest it was way more than I needed. I bought it in 2007 thinking I would use it all over the world, taking all sorts of amazing pictures. While I have taken it to many places the fact is that most of its features are still alien to me. I have come to realise that I am a point-and-click guy, and I will almost never wait for the perfect shot or the right lighting or fidget with 1000 features for 10 minutes. It takes too long dammit. It was also big, like small bag big, and it was a pain to carry around all the time. So by the end I was often leaving it at home on weekend trips and just using my phone camera. In fact my phone camera is so good that I debated buying a new camera at all, but there were a few features of a real camera that I missed having in Kyoto (where my camera died) and more so in Macau, where lighting was not on my side and thus I have fewer great pics than I would have wanted. With that in mind I went out to find a cheaper camera with a few features of my old camera but much more basic and wound up with this:

The best part was that it was only 109,000 won (about $100USD) and in Korea, where electronics are horrible overpriced (thanks Samsung) this little Sony was a bargain (the same Samsung camera was almost twice as much, the subject of a blog I am working on). Small enough to fit in my pocket but still able to take good pics. Seems a good fit for me (pun intended)