New Camera

You may have noticed that there are a lot more pictures on the blog lately.  My old Canon camera from 2001 was starting to poop out and it didn't have drivers for Vista/Windows7.  Until I got the new camera I had to take pictures with Kelli's camera, download them to her computer, copy them to a USB and then put them on my computer.  That was a little too much work.

I'm not the sort of guy who walks into the store, looks at the cameras, and then picks one.  I have to shop, look at reviews, consider, read some more reviews, ponder, then look for the best price.  Once I had narrowed my choices down to two Panasonic cameras, I went to K's Denki to look at actual cameras.

Sometimes, I feel a little bit like Eeyore.  To be more accurate I feel like Eeyore if his last name were Murphy and he wrote a law describing why a flipped coin has a 50% chance of landing heads up and dropped buttered toasts has a 100% chance of landing buttered side down.  Sometimes "anything that can go wrong will", and "of course it happens to me."

Panasonic used to release all their cameras in Japan with Japanese and English menus.  The key phrase in that last sentence is "used to."  Until this year  in fact.  Yes, the first camera model year not to include bilingual menus was 2010. I felt like Eeyore Murphy Simpson. D'oh!

Panasonic decided to sell the same camera with 4 languages for a slightly higher price and call it an international model, which made me mad.  Not to mention no one even keeps it in stock in our town.  I bit the bullet and bought a camera with Japanese menus.

How's that working out for me?  Let's just say, thank goodness all the menu options have little icons.