Time For a New Camera

My point-and-shoot camera finally broke: the control button is stuck in automatic mode. At first I was a little annoyed by it, but I have been using this camera day in day out for the last four years and it has done its fair share of work. It deserved to be retired. It was time for a new camera.

My first stop was at the Canon website since so far every camera I've owned has been a Canon. Did you know that they have 26 different models of point-and-shoot cameras? To make things worse, they all are pretty much the same; one may have one more scene mode, while another has a faster shutter speed and a third one has different focal lengths. Choosing what I wanted was not going to be easy.

So I went to Facebook and posted on my status that I was looking for a new camera. Comments poured in with suggestions from several friends and made me think of other brands and models. I have never had as many comments on a status as this one. So with their advice in mind I went back to the Canon website and picked the models I wanted.

The next step was to visit a store where I could touch and play with the cameras I had in mind. So off to an electronics mega-store I went and was happy to find out they had the models I was interested on display. Two minutes playing with them was enough for me to decide that I was not going to get either of them: the controls were a little fidgety for my taste.

But I was already at the store, so I decided I might look at other models my friends had recommended and I had vetoed. Wise decision, since two of the models that I discarded only because I thought they were too big to fit in my pocket turned out to not be too big at all (or maybe my pockets are not as small as I thought). They had the one I liked in stock so I left the store with my brand new point and shoot camera.

And, as usual, it was a Canon.