Camera

Today I went out to get myself a neat new camera, as a birthday present for myself. It was really hard to find the one I was looking for, a Sony DSC-H2. The slightly better H5 was completely unavailable, so I got the H2 instead. It's a neat little prosumer device, with a lot of manual control. Sure it's no DSLR, but I can't afford DSLR lenses anyway, so there isn't much point in getting one.

There is a review of the H2 at dpreview.com. The CCD is six megapixels (it's more than enough, since megapixels don't matter much past 6 for this kind of camera) and it's got 12x optical zoom which will come in very handy for photographing birds and other animals that are camera-shy. Thanks to Megan, Michelle and Jeff for helping me decide upon a suitable camera.