No new digital camera

Thank you for checking regularly and telling me that I have not updated my blog. My life and schedule in Japan ended up different than I intended, in a good way. However, I apologize for the burden it caused to those who checked month after month with no updates. Although I can't promise that this will change.

Golden Week is coming up, a bunch of public holidays from 5/2 to 5/6. I am heading to Yakushima, famous for monkeys, 2,000 year old trees, and tourists. Sounds like a perfect time to finally buy a new digital camera since my old one broke sometime last year.

Well I have been shopping around, so I decided to finish my research today and decide on one to buy. I was thinking about the C905i Cybershot. A very cool cellphone that does everything I want a cell-phone to do, including features that help it take good pictures like image stabilizing, auto focus, and xenon flash. As someone with no photography skill, these are things that I consider more important than megapixels. Whether the phone will work in Japan is an answer that varies from month to month when I ask at the local docomo shop, so its not worth the headache until right before I make a decision.

But a rumor came out this month that Cybershot is putting out a new phone with the Android operating system. A new Cybershot phone could be better than the C905i so its worth waiting before I buy a new cellphone. What camera to buy in the meantime?

Today I spent the entire day (except for grocery shopping) looking at cameras online. I realize that I had been thinking small potatoes.

For example, a camera built into a snorkeling mask.
Or into binoculars.
Also the Sony NightShot would allow me to take pictures at night with no flash. However, the Sony NightShot is also rather frightening if you consider that there are weirdos walking around right now using its SXIR technology to look at mannequin nipples. If you are a mannequin, please consider that you only need to be afraid of people with cameras (unlike the fabled X-ray glasses where anyone on a sunshiny day could be your enemy).

All of these may be old news to some of you, but they are possibilities I hadn't considered until now.
Thank you to my friend who talked me into deliberating before buying a camera/cellphone in December.
Instead of thinking about which camera to buy, I am now considering how many cameras to buy. There are too many cool things out there, and I don't want to waste my money until I decide how many things I should waste it on.

Planning to enjoy a pictureless picturesque Yakushima,
lunar