New Camera

I wrote 2 weeks ago that I bought a used camera on ebay a Nikon CoolPix 5700. I really liked the camera but there were a few things that annoyed me about it, that I just couldn’t get past. Overall I was happy with the camera but felt the need to replace it.

I ended up buying a Panasonic Lumix FZ20. It is a 5MP 12x optical zoom camera and I paid $120 for it on Ebay. It came with the Case, 3 batteries, 2GB SD card, 4 filters. 5MP may not seem like much, but when 99% of what you do just gets re-sized, emailed and printed as 5x7 photos its plenty.

My wife took a few pictures on the “auto” settings and they turned out great. Our initial reactions are that we love the camera. Here are some of the pictures she took.

	This is Monty… he’s sleeping on the arm of the sofa.
	The tree in the front yard from about 15-20 feet.
	This one is zoomed into some bushes 2 houses down about 100 feet away.