Remember how last year I bought a new camera? Well, the Sony CyberShot DCS-U20 sure was cute, but guess what: photo quality pretty much sucked. Day photos have disappointing colors, and night shots are practically monochromatic they were so blown out. Don’t get me started on the red eye — even the seizure-inducing red eye reducing mode gives people glowing demon lenses. The camera can’t take close up shots, and the lag time between pressing the shutter button an the picture actually being taken is interminable. I have a lot of pictures of people turning their heads. The videos are tiny, short, silent, and the lowest quality I’ve seen — worse than a 5 year old webcam. In short: the CyberShot DCS-U20 is fine for snapshots, but not real pictures. It was an ill-advised purchase, one I made in part because I had a friend who was working at Sony who got me a deal…but a discounted piece of shit is still a piece of shit.

I’ve been considering gettng a new camera for several months, and thought about buying myself one for my birthday. But I held off — it’s never really the right time to drop a chunk of change like that. But with an impending three week trip to France coming up in a couple months, I decided I needed to take the plunge.

Meet my new camera. It should be arriving in a couple days.
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