So I finally broke down and bought a new digital camera, and decided to make it a D-SLR. Keep in mind I went from my last camera purchase way back when 2 mega pixels was king to using the camera on my Razer. Needless to say I have not been taking great photos. Sure they are passable for what I do with them which is mostly look at them on the computer or 360 and occasionally print some out on 4x6 or 5x7 stock, but I wanted something more.
Most importantly I wanted to solve two issues, the biggest was snapping photos of my son while he was still in the room. All to often most of my photos are a blur of him passing by or heading off after a cool pose or great smile, I wanted to capture the moment not the moment after! The next was battery life, currently I had been spending more time charging batteries than actually taking pictures. I'll attribute this to a long life for the batteries but even today's normal batteries and so called "digital" batteries were no match for my old camera.
In any case yesterday I went to Best Buy and bought me a Nikon D40, I had been looking at the D60 but figured the 40 was good enough to get me into the D-SLR camp. What I will say after just one day and about 50 photos later that this camera is truly a leap beyond where I've been. I have already taken loads of great smile pictures and action shots, heck I even tried taking some photos of the fish in my aquarium which were normally ALWAYS blurry and they are coming out great. The best part is that so far I haven't strayed a bit from the Auto setting. This is a camera I can truly grow into and hopefully learn how to take great photos all over the place.
Most importantly however is that I can not quickly take great photos of my son, anything beyond that is the icing on the cake. Heck the only downfall I can see is the loads of photos I'll be taking and putting on the computer. But that's the great part about a Digital SLR camera, I don't need to keep running to the photo lab, I can just keep on taking photos!
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