New Camera

On my recent hunting trip every time I packed my backback for a climb to our scouting position on the butte or to take off on a stalk up the mountain I found myself leaving my camera behind. I like the Canon but it's too big, bulky and heavy when your moving fast and packing guns, knives, water, food, survival gear and anticipating returning with moose meat. It is also dated at 6 mega pixels. So I shopped for a pocket camera that was tough enough for me. I choose the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS2. It has a Leica lens with 4.9 zoom, it's 14 mega pixels, waterproof to 33 ft. and shockproof from a drop of 6.6 ft. It arrived in the mail last night so I took it on my evening dog walk and tryed it out. It's quick, light, simple, just what I needed.

Caribou Cow and Calf

They hung around on the sandbar in front of our camp for about an hour, watching us watch them.

"Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!"

My old camera, with its fixed lense and 1.2 megapixel chip got a severe scratch right in the center of the lense. Regrettably that meant I had to get a new camera. My new Canon Rebel XTi arrived the day before yesterday. I've spent the last two evenings with the camera and manual taking innumerable photos of the dogs and my living room, ( I shall spare you.) However this weekend I will not be in the office for all the daylight hours and hope to try to find interesting subjects out side of my living room. Photos coming, you've been warned!