I am healed! Woke up this morning with normal temp and feeling fine. Good health is highly underrated when we have it, and longed for when we don't. Thank you all for your generous and thoughtful wishes and your funny comments -- you are The Best!
So. Enough with the food poisoning. Moving on.
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I got a new camera!
I wrote about my previous camera, a Fuji FineFix S5100, when my sweetie bought it for me in November 2006, and I have loved almost everything about it. It took great pictures, it didn't eat batteries, it had an awesome 10x optical zoom, it had a ton of features -- included macro -- that I gradually learned to use, and it looked cool. (That last thing was not terribly important to me, but Smokey liked it.) It had two faults, however: it was about 6 months too old to have image stabilization, which I found would have been extremely helpful in low light conditions, and it made my purse or tote bag v-e-r-y heavy.
This little baby has solved those problems.
It is a Canon PowerShot A720 IS. I haven't had the chance to play with it much, having spent the two days since it arrived sick in bed, but I will. It is the camera that Claudia talked about buying a few months ago; I figured that a camera chosen by someone who, 1, already had a digital SLR and was looking for a good small camera to throw in her purse/backpack/knitting; B, did the amount of research she did; and iii, was as smart as she is, would be a good one. It has only a 6x optical zoom, but I figured that limitation would be made up by the increased number of megapixels (the Fuji was only a 4MP). The final factor was when Consumer Reports picked it as a Best Buy in the latest issue.
You want to know what else was cool about buying this camera? It cost me almost zilch. Paid for the camera with a gift certificate I got at work last winter. Bought a 4GB memory card out of my own pocket, ~$15. The vendor that sold me the camera sent me a $20 coupon, so I bought another memory card and paid only the shipping. Heh. Such a deal.
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While searching for my post about the Fuji I came upon this, which upon rereading I find to be one of my more thoughtful posts. And so, in the interest of bolstering my ever-expanding ego, I present you a link here.
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I planned to give you some knitting photos, but having missed two days this week means I am dreadfully behind in everything else in my life, so I will close this post. Once again, thank you for all your good wishes. It meant a lot to me.
