This year for Christmas, Mon Amour asked for just one thing - a REALLY nice digital camera. We currently owned a sufficiently nice digital camera that my wonderful parents got for us as a wedding present. (Ironically enough, we promptly left the camera at home when we went on our honeymoon...that's right...no pictures of the honeymoon. Oh well, right? Most folks on their honeymoon just take pictures of each other in front of lovely scenery. Which we can recreate at any point if we wanted. )
Anyway, it was time to move on to a bigger and more expensive camera. Fortunately Mon Amour's birthday comes a mere week after Christmas - and he is used to getting presents that "count for both Christmas and Birthday". This, combined with a group effort from a couple of family members, resulted in me being able to purchase him this camera.
Sadly, because it was both a present from his parents as well as me, Mon Amour was not able to open it until we visited his parents for his Birthday last weekend. The wait was worth it I believe. The camera is absolutely fabulous. It is not an SLR - but it is by no means lacking any features. I have read the owners manual front to back and am still not sure what it all means. But, even on the most basic "Auto" setting, it has lovely perks like 10 megapixels, and 20x optical zoom!!
Some of the features we do understand are the continuous shooting function - which will hopefully allow us to get some decent pictures of our ever-mobile dog. The color accent function which is pretty standard for Canon cameras. And the Stitching function which will allow us to piece together some pretty sweet panoramics.
Eventually we will embrace some of the cooler, more high tech functions of the camera. But until then we will just have great auto-pictures, and a few color accent ones just for fun.
Thanks to everyone who chipped in on this present!
Sadly, because it was both a present from his parents as well as me, Mon Amour was not able to open it until we visited his parents for his Birthday last weekend. The wait was worth it I believe. The camera is absolutely fabulous. It is not an SLR - but it is by no means lacking any features. I have read the owners manual front to back and am still not sure what it all means. But, even on the most basic "Auto" setting, it has lovely perks like 10 megapixels, and 20x optical zoom!!
Some of the features we do understand are the continuous shooting function - which will hopefully allow us to get some decent pictures of our ever-mobile dog. The color accent function which is pretty standard for Canon cameras. And the Stitching function which will allow us to piece together some pretty sweet panoramics.
Eventually we will embrace some of the cooler, more high tech functions of the camera. But until then we will just have great auto-pictures, and a few color accent ones just for fun.
Thanks to everyone who chipped in on this present! 
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