DigiCam
Wow, can’t believe it’s February already. Erica and I have been looking into buying a new digital camera that we can use to take lots and lots of pictures of the new baby (and other things, of course!). She took a photography class in high school and enjoys taking pictures. Her old camera was a Nikon SLR I think, but it’s broken. As for me, I’ve gotten more “into” graphic design and photography as time goes by.
We got a Canon Powershot A70, our first digital camera, in 2003 and it has worked really well for us. Digital cameras are truly revolutionary, and it’s nice to be able to take all the pictures you want. It enables you to be more creative, capture more things “on film”, and have better photos all around. Not to mention being able to play with them on the computer. So that’s helped us to enjoy photography more and we were looking forward to upgrading since digital cameras have come so far in 4 years.
Enter the Panasonic FZ8. We’re not up for spending big bucks for a digital SLR, but would like more zoom and features in a camera than we have now. So we’ve been looking at some with 12x optical zoom (Olympus just announced one with 18x zoom!) and models by Canon and Panasonic stood out. The Panasonic is less expensive and has the same features more or less, except that it has a better movie mode. You really don’t need a camcorder if your camera can record movies well, and with memory cards up to 16GB this year, you’re not really limited on space. So unless Canon announces a big step up from their S3-IS camera later this month, we’ll probably be getting this bad boy when it goes on sale!
