My New Baby

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WE’RE BACK!!! Okay, okay, I promised that I’d post about our Hong Kong trip, but of course you have to give me some time to settle down and gather my pics and stuff. I do have quite a few stories and pictures to match. But I guess the highlight of my trip was my decision to finally purchase my 1st DSLR. I lurve my trusty Olympus C-5060:

It’s the camera that’s responsible for all the pics I’ve posted on the net – especially the holiday pics and the underwater photos – but it’s time for me to graduate to another level. It’ll still be my diving camera, but I’ve decided to finally buy a DSLR and to take up photography lessons. I’ve been thinking of getting a DSLR for more then 5 years now. So I start asking friends and friends of friends, and the eternal question came up – Canon or Nikon? More specifically, the Canon 400D or the Nikon D40X? I swear, it was like opening Pandora’s box! People either get really passionate and vote hotly for their pick, or they start hedging the question altogether and sit on the fence. It’s like Coke or Pepsi, Globe or Smart, Jollibee or McDonald’s, Kapamilya or Kapuso, RX 93.1 or…okay, let’s stop right there, you get the point. Besides, it’s RX…or nothing (hooo, biased!!!). Hey, it’s my blog! Anyway, I hemmed and hawed and vacillated from one choice to the other and back. I heard so many opinions that I totally forgot which virtue and which downfall belongs to which camera. Suffice it to say I made a last minute decision and went entirely on gut feel, bereft of any techno-wisdom. Forget the pros and cons, it was purely a decision hinged solely on feelings. Nothing more than feelings. So without further ado…the winner is:

So now I have a new baby! My next problem is to figure out how to use it. I’ve been a point and shoot guy all this time (oooh…pointing…shooting…). I have no idea what any of those buttons and levers and thingamabobs are for. It’s like I bought a car but I don’t know how to drive. So in case you guys have any suggestions as to where I can take photo lessons, feel free to suggest! And I promise to post my pics as I travel down the path of photographic greatness so you can admire the progressions of my future masterpieces! Okay…hmmm…where’s the shutter on this thing…