Whoops! .. and a new camera

Ok so I am guilty of forgetting this thing, if it were a pet I'd have the SPCA on my back. Well in the news lately, my camera gave up on me after struggling to hang in there over the last few months. I was suddenly faced with having to replace it but as I had not been in the market for one I had no idea what I wanted. I spent a couple of nights online checking out sales and reviews, I decided to stick with panasonic as I had been pretty happy with the previous one and they always seem to get fairly decent reviews, that only left me with the question of how much camera did I need.

I had been wanting to up my game a bit on the photography front, and had been toying with the idea of jumping into the DLSR pool. However aside from the cost of them, I wasn't overly thrilled by the idea of the size of it, and extra lenses and batteries and all the extra gear that people lug about with them. I wanted a camera that did great closeups and awesome colour, the two models I kept coming back to were the panasonic LX3 and LX5.. ouch on the price though. I managed to find an LX3 on sale for $200 off, I had lucked into needing a new camera the week that the LX5 had hit the market, and so LX3's were being sold off. Yay! not only did I get $200 off the camera, but I picked up a spare battery for half price too, and another SD card.

I love my new camera, it's a little bigger then my previous one, but it is still small enough to slip into my handbag or a pocket. It takes awesome photos! I love not having to fiddle with colour and exposure, I just point, click and load it straight to flickr, and with the grid overlay on the screen to help me when taking the shots, I barely even need to crop. Hopefully this means I will have even better looking project pictures on Ravelry, and more importantly, better pictures for my patterns for sale. Now all I need is a light tent/box set up, I am planning to build that from pvc pipe and white nylon.