Lights! Thisses! Action!

I sold my extra Wii (I had three, including one that's not portable and you can't play Zelda on) on the eBays, and promptly had an extra $350 in my paypal account, to go along with the $140 that I had previously. The first thing I did was buy my dream compact camera, the Nikon Coolpix s51. 8.1 megapixels, 16" x 20" pictures, one-touch portrait mode, high ISO shooting, vibration compensation, and one hell of a zoom. And it's everything it's cracked up to be.

There are a few gripes that I've got, the first of which being that Vista *spit* doesn't play well with it when you plug in the USB cable. It asks for drivers, of which there are none, so you can't get it to recognize that it's a camera and/or a portable USB storage device. This can be overcome in two ways. 1) Remove SD memory card from camera and plug into printer's SD card slot, or 2) Boot over to the Mac side and just connect normally and let iPhoto take care of everything automagically. The second gripe is that it doesn't come with a dock for charging. I got spoiled by my previous camera, a Sony that I bought 2½ years ago, that plugged into a dock that was plugged into both the power outlet and the computer via USB, charging the camera and connecting to the computer at the same time. This one just has a standalone battery charger that you have to put the battery into, and a loose combination USB and RCA cable. It's a bit of an inconvenience, but it's not dealbreaking, especially when you get what this camera brings to the table in return.

I'm gushing, I know, but I'm so very happy with this thing.

My plans for it? Well, I'm glad you asked. First and foremost I'm going to be taking food porn every chance I get. Speaking of which, there's a bunch of Thanksgiving pictures up on my Flickr so give those a look. Secondly, I just bought a Gorillapod and am going to use that and the record video feature of the camera to possibly maybe put together a cooking show demo, and edit it together with iMovie HD. Just something I'm throwing around in my head. Just an idea.

With that, i'm off to bed, with thoughts of food dancing all through my head.