My Current Obsession

Just to clarify, I don't own a Nikon D80.....YET. Not enough moolah anyway. You see, I have more important things to spend my money on like food, food and more food...heeheehee.

Looking at the photos posted by these fellow bloggers Abaniko, Eric, Kyels, Rey and Sidney convinced me that DSLR is the only way to go. Please Santa, I've been good this year. What can I do to afford one? Let me count the ways:

1. I can buy tickets to the lotto and hope to win the jackpot. Wow! I can buy not only one DSLR camera but a whole truckload of them!!! Problem is, the chances are 1 in 10,000,000 or some similar digit before I can win the jackpot. I'll have more chances of being hit by a lightning than winning the lotto! Arrghh!

2. Try to join the next Philippine Idol and hope to convince everyone that I'm a deserving winner. Problem is, I can't sing even if my life depended on it. Do-re-mi, do-re-mi... I can still give this a try though, not everyone who joins these kinds of contests are excellent singers...remember Sanjaya Malakar??? Nuff said.

3. Maybe I can enter into a government contract to supply millions of equipments to some far-flung barangay??? Problem is, I don't have anything to offer 'cept my legal services and that's not for sale.

4. Maybe I can join a photo contest where the prize is a DSLR camera. Problem with this plan is that those who win these contests are those who already have a DSLR camera which they used to take the winning photograph! It's the chicken-and-egg cycle once more.

5. Buy tickets to the Oprah show and pray that the episode I get to watch is one where Oprah gives away the latest gadgets and hope that it includes a DSLR camera. But I guess there are many loopholes in this plan. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get to Oprah's show??? And what are the chances I get to watch the episode where she gives away stuff?? Boy, I would love to have been part of the audience when she gave each one a car.

As you can see, I'm running out of ideas. Can you help me formulate a plan??? Hahaha...all in the spirit of fun ha, nothing serious or illegal, ok?

Cameras, anyone?

When, in the middle of a birthday celebration last Sunday, my camera suddenly conked out on me, I decided to give up my fight against digital cameras and join the bandwagon. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for digital stuff and technology and gadgets to make my life easier. It's just that I bought this Canon Ixus (film) camera at a ridiculously high price several years ago, just before digital cameras suddenly became en vogue, so in order to keep my sanity, I had to convince myself several times that film cameras are so much better than digital cameras.

But not anymore. With my film camera out of commission, I suddenly had a reason to buy a new camera. And yes, of course, digital is the only way to go.

So, last night, with much nudging and persuasion, hubby grudgingly accompanied me to Park Square in Makati in order to browse through the different digital cameras that are available in the market. Whew! It was definitely tough! The selection of digital cameras are wide and choosing one depends largely on the needs of the user. My main concerns are battery life (I want lithium ion ones, however they belong to a higher price category, way out of my league) and reasonable megapixels (although photography is not my main source of livelihood, I want to make sure that I could use it for years to come and the prints will still turn out good, so 2 MPs were definitely out of the picture).

Here are some cameras available:














… and more cameras….

With all of these cameras staring at me, I suddenly panicked. So, hubby advised me to wait one more week, just browse around the malls and surf the net, before deciding on what camera to buy. Ok, ok, I agreed. It didn't help too that a $^%$^% saleslady was very rude to us. We asked her if a certain brand is available on installment basis and she ignored us. I was pretty sure she heard us and we repeated our question twice. We stormed out of there without waiting for the answer to our question. That serves her right! (as if the saleslady cares)

So now, I'm still surfing the net, looking for previews of the brands and models that are within my price range. Hopefully, I get to make my final choice this weekend.