Basically, I woke up and was looking through the morning paper before heading to work. As usual, I took a quick peek at the Fry's ad on the back of the front page. This time the ad was devoted to a bunch of one-day-only sales and one of them was for a Sony DSC-HX1 Digital camera (originally $400 but on sale for $270). After work, I drove to the nearest Fry's and bought it.
It is amazing. It has a 20x optical zoom (!!!), 1080p HD video recording, a super easy panorama mode (where you simply "sweep" the camera and it takes a nice big panoramic picture), HDMI output, and after testing the Handheld Twilight feature, I can safely say that this badboy can take some DAMN FINE pictures in the dark *WITHOUT* the flash on. It's almost kind of scary.
It's a fairly large camera - its one of those professional looking ones with the huge telescoping lenses. I was running around the house all day snapping pictures of anything I could find; wasted lots of time testing out the amazingly good zoom by snapping pictures of things I could barely even see with the naked eye. I'm beginning to understand why some people are obsessed with photography.
I hope to take a lot of pictures and video while I'm in Japan, and I think its safe to say that I definitely will now that I have a more than capable (and REALLY fun to use!) camera.
Here is what it looks like:
You can bet that I will upload some photos/videos that I've taken with it to this blog later - but for now I'm simply having too much fun fooling around with it. I'll get around to uploading later haha.
There are a few other things that I plan on buying before departure - most notably/possibly a new computer (im thinking a laptop, maybe even a MacBook Pro).
So yeahp! That's all for now! See you later.
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