We have had the same camera for about 5 years now (no joke!!) and I love it dearly. It is a Sony DSC-S85 and it has worked wonderfully for the entire time we’ve had it. It is our workhorse that I use on a daily basis to take photos for every item you see in our etsy shop and it was also the camera we used for every trip Todd and I have taken together since we got together 5 + years ago and it was there to capture all the gory but beautiful pictures of my daughter’s birth. So as you can tell, it’s pretty much a member of our family! I’m sure you can understand my reluctance to get a new camera when this one has been with us for so long. Here she is:

But after much thought, I decided that, because I am now blogging and in need a more portable camera, it was time we invested in a smaller camera. Here’s our new baby, the Kodak Easyshare V803, isn’t she pretty?!

I haven’t done much with it yet, though I did test it out a little. I don’t have the memory card yet (ordered it online and it should be here tomorrow, hopefully!) but the awesome thing about this camera is that it has internal memory!! I was able to get a few shots in which was nice. I still have to learn all the tricks to using it, but it definitely takes a fine looking pic (albeit they are HUGE!!! I still can’t figure out how to make the pictures smaller!). Here’s the only decent shot I took today.

Those are the pygmy goats and chickens, in case you can’t tell ;-)

It was definitely an eyeopener looking at "modern" cameras (our workhorse is practically considered a dinosaur!). For example, our Sony was about $500 5 years ago with 4.1mp and back then, the memory cards only held about 28-256mb of memory and they were about $100-200. I got this camera for about $100 and the 2G memory card was only $13!!! Crazy!!

Well, I better get testing this baby out a little more this evening. Till next time, my lovely friends!