With a baby on the way we saw the need to invest into a camera that’s a little bit more capable than our 5 year old current one, so after doing a lot of research we decided to get the Canon Powershot S5 IS, pictured below.

It has 12x optical zoom, 8 and some mega pixels, image stabilization, a 36mm-432mm lens (35mm equivalent) with f:2.7-3.5 aperture wide and tele respectively, up to 8. It’s not a dSLR, but very much like one. The reason we didn’t go with a dSLR is that we wanted video as well as photos, which dSLRs can’t do. This one can, and you can even use the full zoom during movie shooting.

Here’s the first good picture (you may respectfully disagree ) I took out my office window. I think it’s a young red-winged black bird, but correct me if I am wrong. Settings: 1/400, f3.5, 12x zoom, ISO 125. I also cropped some of the surroundings away.

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