Snap happy

this week i have had the dilemma of contemplating on which new camera to buy. after loosing my little compact digital camera in dunedin a couple of weekends ago, i have felt deprived of being able to click away at life's continuous kodak moments. for over a year now i have had my eye on olympus' compact slr camera (the PEN E-P1).

i mean look how beautiful she is...

last year the PEN was a whopping $2000nz... but as a discontinued model (sigh) its now reduced to $800nz. which for an slr is actually quite reasonable, but its still a lot of money that i cannot really afford. oh how i tried to find this model at one of the bigger department stores where you can finance with 6 months interest free and various other deals, but no prevail.

impatient as i am with wanting a camera asap, i kept racking my brain on how i could come up with the funds. again i had come up with no plan as of yet.

however, while scoping out the only camera shop in wanaka my friend alisha picked up this dinky little white pentax and goes "oh this looks like a bit of you..." and there it was, a skip of a heartbeat, camera love at first sight.

of course, i hadnt ended my relationship with the olympus pen, and i still had strong feelings for it.

so, over a bottle of wine in the sun, i weighed up the pros and cons of each:

the olympus is an slr: pro. it has inter changable lenses: pro. it is super pretty: pro. though it is expensive: con. and it doesnt actually come with a flash (you have to purchase them separately for an extra $300): con.

now the pentax on the other hand is only a compact camera: con. but it has the same amount of megapixel as the PEN: pro. it costs half the amount so can buy it straight away: pro. and it is also super pretty: pro.

and on this sunny spring day after a lovely brekky with my dad who had come to visit me, i strolled into our small camera store and politely asked the camera man to take the pentax off the shelf, she will now be mine! (much to the dismay of the other staff member who aparently had had her eye on it also).

so say hello to my little bundle of beauty that will now be snapping all my most precious and memorable moments...

xxx