Anniversary Present

Yesterday Rick and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary! For our anniversary he bought me a new camera! I was torn between wanting a sleeker camera that would be easy to take with me everywhere and a camera with a powerful zoom and extra features. I decided it wouldn't be wise to get a step down from my current camera and went with the Canon Powershot with 20x optical zoom. I love taking nature shots and that zoom comes in handy! Of course I'd love to own a DSLR but that just isn't in the budget. So for now this is the next best thing. I have been playing around with my new camera and it will definitely take some getting use to. It has its pros and cons. The first con is minor: the lens cap is not attached to the camera with a strap like my previous camera. It also has to be manually removed and doesn't just pop off when I turn on the camera. The second issue I have is with the flash. My previous camera had an automatic flash. It popped up and went off when needed. This camera has what is called an automatic flash but you have to raise the flash each time you use the camera to turn it on. It will not pop up automatically. Again these are two minor inconveniences and have more to do with my sheer laziness than anything else.

The camera does have some pretty cool features that I'm loving. It has a swivel LCD screen so I can get a good self portrait! I also do not like spending time editing pics on the computer and occasionally like the option of cropping them right on the camera. My previous camera would only allow you to crop it in the same orientation as the original photo. My new camera however allows you to crop a photo right on the camera as well and you can crop it to be either horizontal or vertical no matter what the orientation of the original photo! Another cool feature I've been playing with is that you can take a black and white photo with spot color. You choose what color you want to be in color and anything in the photo with that color is in color while everything else is in black and white! The camera got high reviews on the website but for now my verdict is still out! I will post some test shots later this week!