Huhu… Next week onwards, my parents will be needing the camera that I’m currently using, and they don’t know about the existence of this website and that I need a camera to take regular pictures for it… What should I do?? =(

Image taken using my mobile phone’s camera

In desperation, I have 3 options:

Option 1: Stop putting pictures into my entries, and thus causing my blog to be as dull as my calculus textbooks.

Option2: Take pictures using my mobile phone, but then it’d be absolutely useless when it comes to taking group or scenery photos; and, it also makes me look very unprofessional walking around taking photos with a Nokia.

Option 3: BUY A NEW ONE!

I think the 3rd is the only acceptable solution, BUT, I’ll need to spend a rather huge amount of money again! After spending so much money on my new room, every high-cost spending now is as agonizing as being cast the Cruciatus Curse. (Please don’t mind the Harry Potter terms in my posts these few weeks, it’s Harry Potter season!)

But I guess I have no choice: For the sake of my own pleasure when I want to re-read my own blog a few years later, and for the few readers who visit this website, I’m going to get a new camera!

I have my eyes set on 2 models:

The Sony DSC-T20 T Series Cybershot,

Which has a nice, shiny, full metal body, 8.1 mega pixels resolution, and up to a staggering ISO 3200 film speed!

Glen’s brother has a T-20 and he said that the daylight images he’d taken were incredibly sharp and nice. I haven’t done much research on this model myself, should I believe him?

The specs are all very impressive but sometimes I think any camera with more than 5 mega pixels or higher than ISO 800 is quite pointless for me since all my pictures are going to be scaled down to 400 x 300 pixels anyway, and a picture taken with ISO 800 or higher would have so much noise in it that the resulting image is not at all appealing.

And one thing, the design is just sooo nice!!! I mean, it’s not like the boring rectangular box camera design that almost every other brand is using! And you can choose from 4 different body colours!

Anyway, the other model that I’m considering is the Canon Digital IXUS 70:

Which has an insane thickness of less than 2 cm! It can even fit perfectly in my jeans!

It has a resolution of 7.1 mega pixels, slightly less than the Sony, and a max of ISO 1600, which is also less; but as I said, they don’t really matter much to a noob-user like me. Haha…

I think the design losses slightly to the Sony model, but some of my friends told me that taking images in the dark with a Canon is usually much better, compared to a Sony.

Here’s an image taken by a camera that really sucks in low light conditions, completely blurred out:

Besides, the Canon model looks more rigid and strong, as I’ve had friends telling me horrible stories about how Sony models were so easily smashed and damaged…

Anyway, the most persuasive, and iterated, point I’ve heard from my friends was: “Because, you know, most Pros use Canon.”

Now that’s a good point. No, really, it is! =)

Both models are of almost the same price, one excels in daylight photos and the design; the other dominates in low-light conditions and durability, assuming all that my friends told me are true.

Argh… I dunno, really can’t seem to decide between the two. Maybe I should buy both! Hah! But no way! It’d be like 2 Cruciatus Curses cast together on me! *dies*

I’ll have to think about it, will post it up when I’ve finally bought it!

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