My New Toy
I know you have all been waiting on pins and needles to see what I got for Christmas and checking the blog hourly hoping I was going to update it.
Ready? Here's a hint...the last week my new nickname has been "paparazzi."
A new Digital SLR camera...the Canon Rebel T1i to be exact. Whoo Hoo!
Actually it would be accurate to say that I received money for me to buy the camera at our "first Christmas". So when we got home last weekend I was thinking about ordering it, but thought I would just do it after the holidays since we would be traveling and I did not want to miss the package.
That was before I saw that BH Photo had free overnight shipping right before Christmas.....
So on the 23rd afterhitting refresh on the package status once every five minutes and not showering in case I missed the USP man waiting patiently this baby arrived.
Which quickly turned into this....
And then unfortunately this...
So why a Canon? A couple of reasons.... like I really like the fact that it is capable of shooting HD video and it has tons a great reviews. But the main reason is this......
I had the film version of the Rebel years ago and lens are interchangeable.
Sadly I never used the film version to it's full potential (as in never went into the modes where you actually had to adjust things) because frankly it is a pretty steep learning curve when you are paying for film and processing and don't get immediate feedback if you totally messed it up or not. Also the controls required a lot more knowledge because there was not a huge screen.
So it has been collecting dust for the last couple of years while I have been using a point and shoot Sony Powershot.
Until now.....
But as a warning just because I have a new fancy camera, don't expect the pictures to all of a sudden be stellar.....I have a lot of learning to do and two uncooperative furry friends to do it on. Here are some of my favorites from this weekend (I have not picked nor figured out editing software yet, so these pics are straight from the camera).
My current thing that I LOVE about this camera.....there is no pause between pressing the button and the picture snapping so you can capture things like this....
Ready? Here's a hint...the last week my new nickname has been "paparazzi."
A new Digital SLR camera...the Canon Rebel T1i to be exact. Whoo Hoo!
Actually it would be accurate to say that I received money for me to buy the camera at our "first Christmas". So when we got home last weekend I was thinking about ordering it, but thought I would just do it after the holidays since we would be traveling and I did not want to miss the package.
That was before I saw that BH Photo had free overnight shipping right before Christmas.....
So on the 23rd after
So why a Canon? A couple of reasons.... like I really like the fact that it is capable of shooting HD video and it has tons a great reviews. But the main reason is this......
Sadly I never used the film version to it's full potential (as in never went into the modes where you actually had to adjust things) because frankly it is a pretty steep learning curve when you are paying for film and processing and don't get immediate feedback if you totally messed it up or not. Also the controls required a lot more knowledge because there was not a huge screen.
So it has been collecting dust for the last couple of years while I have been using a point and shoot Sony Powershot.
Until now.....
But as a warning just because I have a new fancy camera, don't expect the pictures to all of a sudden be stellar.....I have a lot of learning to do and two uncooperative furry friends to do it on. Here are some of my favorites from this weekend (I have not picked nor figured out editing software yet, so these pics are straight from the camera).
My current thing that I LOVE about this camera.....there is no pause between pressing the button and the picture snapping so you can capture things like this....
