Presenting my new baby!

[cerealjoe]

Everyone, I want you to meet the newest addition to the family. It doesn't have a name yet. Actually my other cameras don't have names either, strange as pretty much everything else I own has a name.

For those who have me added on Twitter and FaceBook know about the little internal conflict I had yesterday. I was looking at cameras and for some reason this little one and I clicked right away and I couldn't take my mind off it for hours. I really tried justifying why I wouldn't need it: having three cameras is two too many, I'm moving soon so I can't really buy anything, etc. In the end, I knew that if I didn't buy it, I would regret it next week and so I ordered it at the shop. They have this camera in two versions, "black" like mine or "peach/white"... as much as I like the retro look of the white one, this one seemed better. I could have gotten the E-P2 but it's not like I really need the digital viewfinder. The E-PL1 also sounded terribly like a regular camera. I like this E-P1 because of the lenses if ever the kit lens is not enough and also because of the manual focus. Sure it's not as good as a DSLR but I don't like DSLRs because they're all 500g or more and the lenses are huge and weigh a ton! This one is 385g and the 17-42mm lens is retractable. Obviously the quality won't be the same but do I really need that much quality just for holiday photos? Not really! Worst case if I don't like it, I can always probably give it to my dad, he likes Olympus and this one uses SD cards which is amazing for Olympus! Now I have the battery charging, it should be ready in about three and a half hours. Such a long time to wait to try out a new toy! I was planning on going to the samba carnaval that's supposed to take place today in Helsinki but it's rainy and humid out there... not idea for a first outing.