…… get a new camera?

We must be going dog-crazy, but we’ve just acquired an entry level digital SLR for A. For common-folk like us who just want to be able to take reasonable-looking photographs and videos for keepsake, a digital SLR was quite a step up and I hope, not an overkill. To assuage my guilt for buying this expensive new toy, it is going to be my birthday present for S and A whose birthdays coincidentally fall within days of each other.

The main reason for the new camera was to get clearer pictures of dear A in action! It was just so difficult to use our old point-and-shoot camera to capture those moments of A bounding across the grass, chewing her Frisbee, giving us a quizzical look, swimming and playing with her friends! One moment she’s in the frame, and the next, a blur streak on the taken photograph. Another precious ‘Kodak’ moment appears, and before we could click on anything, the moment had passed again! It was absolutely frustrating!

Of course, some time and effort is going to have to be invested in learning how to use our new camera in the first place. Thank goodness for the Internet! We did a little research on the web, joined a photography forum to canvass opinions, chatted with friends and off we went hunting for our new toy. I don’t expect it to solve all the problems we’ve had so far, and we’ll almost certainly still have some blurry photographs, but for now, let the experimenting begin!