Camera Christmas

I won a bid on a Polaroid One600 camera yesterday. $71.00 for the camera plus a 10 pack of film and seven pictures left on the film in the camera. That price value is insane. Right now I'm even bidding on ANOTHER one that is the camera plus four 10 packs of film. The 10 packs retail for about $20.00 so I figured I'd put a max bid of $80.00 and if I wind up with two cameras, it's still cheaper than if I had just bought one camera and five packs of film. I doubt I'll win the second bid but that's okay. I am so excited to have a Polaroid camera. The only problem lies in trying to find film. I'm going to make a pitstop at Ken's Cameras today to see what they've got on hand. POLAPREMIUM has special film for 600 cameras, in their effort to recreate what Polaroid had done. I'm hoping that I can snatch a bunch of those up before the supplies run out. I think I've just given myself a stressful hobby but I'm super stoked.

While I'm excited to play with my new Polaroid and figuring all of that out didn't take much effort, my hunt for a digital camera has turned into a nightmare. I've been without a camera of my own for two years now and it shows in the lack of photographs I've got of my daughter in her 5th and 6th years on earth. I read reviews like crazy and compare cameras and ask people their opinions. Nothing helps make my decision concrete. I've always had the little point-and-shoot cameras that I can stick in my pocket but I decided I wanted to upgrade to something a little nicer. I set my heart on the PowerShot SX20 IS but my dad has been trying to convince me to drop a little more money to get a dSLR in the form of the Canon EOS Rebel T1i EF-S IS. I have no idea what I'm going to do but I want to do it soon...