Today, my husband and I bought our joint Christmas present. We’ve been discussing it for a while. My camera needed upgrading, the old Fuji Finepix is getting on to three years old now and there is so much better out there now. After a lot of research, we decided to buy the Canon Powershot G10.
One of the main reasons for this model, aside that we’ve heard nothing but good things about it, is that we can get an underwater housing for it.
The motivation for getting an underwater housing is that my husband decided a while back that he would get scuba diving open water certification. I just looked back at that blog entry and I can’t believe that it was in May that we paid for his dive course. He finally got started with it early in November but has yet to finish it.
Anyway, we couldn’t find a store that stocked the housing. In fact, we barely found a store that stocked the camera. They were all sold out and after some yellow pages searches and phone calls, we found one in Brisbane. We drove this morning to Brisbane(parking in the Myer Center was $19!) and walked a short way to Raine’s Camera House.
Brisbane was hot. I have thin blood from the medication I take and not normally feel the heat as much as other people but today I felt it.
The drive back was hot also. The air-con couldn’t cope on the first setting, we had to cranck it up to a couple more settings to blow more air. This is a shot of the M1, the highway from Brisbane to the Gold Coast.
Oops! Someone was speeding.
The photos were taken with the Fuji Finepix Z20 camera. The battery wasn’t charged on the new camera so I had to satisfy myslef with reading the manual on the way home.
I can’t wait to take photos with the new camera.
Hope you have LOTS of fun with your new camera!