On the 13th day of christmas my wallet screamed to me....

Years ago I bought one of the first Casio digital cameras made. It was cool at the time but I decided I liked film much better and left the digital cameras to edgers. Well, after having a few disappointing rolls of film recently and having the developer lose a few rolls of film I decided to give digital a try again. A friend of mine is a professional portrait photographer and he firmly believes that digital is the future and that film cameras will be collectors items as soon as 5 years from now. That gave me pause :) So, I currently have a Canon Elan7e and, after shopping around a bit, settled on the Canon EOS D30 since both cameras use the same lenses and I'm familiar with the Canon line of cameras.

So...I bought, I waited, and it arrived today. The reviews didn't lie and I'm exceedingly pleased with the results. Look at an Elan 7e photo vs. a D30 photo of my Macquarium at work. The difference is rather impressive. I'm no Ansel Adams but I'd like to be able to take decent pictures. Hopefully I won't go too Ladnar with the new camera and I'm pretty amazed with the quality of the photographs, the reasonable software they ship with it and most everything else. Pekka Saarinen has a fine gallery of photos taken with a D30. [ no, he's not related to Eero since, apparently, Saarinen is like Smith in Finland :) ] I also really like the photo album software Pekka uses, even if it is PHP.

12 Dec 2001 at 0:00, Helsinki