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April 29, 2008
Goodbye Best Buy - Hello Circuit City
So I decided that it was time to graduate to a GOOD camera finally. I've been eyeing the Canon Powershot Elph SD 1100 IS - in Pink of course...I went back and forth over different brands and models, but kept coming back to this lovely pink canon. The best of all worlds. Slim, good quality camera, great quality pics, and best of all, in Pink...so it totally matches my cell phone.
So after the gym, I made Seymen take me to Best Buy to buy this camera. After browsing and testing the floor model, I decided I couldn't live one more day without the camera, so we found a salesperson and asked for the Pink SD1100 IS PS. The guy looked in his little camera compartment...no luck. He went somewhere else and came back to break the bad news...Best Buy only carries the Blue Canon PS Elph SD 1100 IS. Not pink and not silver. (Figure that one out for me please...I mean for real, who really buys a blue camera? ;-) LOL JK JK...But seriously, if you want to market to the girlie girl like me, you should better carry the pink version...or at least the boring silver version which at that point, I would have settled for because I was so intent on buying.
Anyway, I dejectedly gave up and resigned myself to the thought that I just couldn't get a new camera before my Europe trip Friday...But to be safe I called Staples (no such luck, only available online) and then we drove to Circuit City as an afterthought.
Well, we walk into CC. I found my camera right away. I asked the sales girl they carried my wonderful pink camera in the store...She pauses...*DRAMATIC PAUSE*..."Yes! We do". At those three wonderful words my excitement got the best of me. I yelped, jumped up and down and clapped my hands in joy. Seymen of course rolled his eyes and laughed at my own dramatic response...but I am now very pleased to say that I am the proud owner of a Pink Canon Powershot Elph SD 1100 IS point and shoot camera. And Seymen, not to be outdone, is now the proud owner of Mario Kart + steering wheel for the WII!
**Oh and you can't beat this...The main feature I was looking for was Night Shot ability...This camera has it...and the icon for the night shot...you'll never believe it...the Effiel Tower with a moon next to it. How perfect is that? The whole reason I wanted this camera is so I can finally get that Night Shot of the Effiel Tower in the background...because my crappy camera wouldn't do it two years ago!
Here's my first pics!
Posted by beth at April 29, 2008 10:57 PM