i did it.  i ordered the first new camera to fill in for my dearly departed.  yes, my beloved camera was so special that it will take two to replace her.  since it is summer and the kayaking and surf-learning is in full swing, our immediate need is for a waterproof camera. 

we had a waterproof housing for the old one and it worked wonderfully, but it wasn’t very convenient.  first, it was an extra thing to have to carry.  second, you had to clean and grease the o-ring before each use.  and then there was just the super bulkiness of it.  not that it’s a bad solution… since you can get a housing for pretty much any camera, you can definitely have a much better camera for underwater use… but it’s just not an easy, spur-of-the-moment kind of thing.  as such, this time we decided to get two cameras, one for underwater and everyday use and one for real photography. 

i had pretty much decided on the olympus 1030sw but i had trouble pulling the trigger on it.  see, i’ve always been a canon girl; i don’t know anything about olympus but they seem to have all of the waterproof cameras and canon had, well, none…  until now.  a couple weeks ago i was set to suck it up and order the olympus when i saw that canon had finally released their own u/w model.  i’ve been mulling it over and then, today, my cousin-in-law sent me a link to a one-day-only sale promotion for the canon d10.  it was meant to be!  i can’t wait for it to get here!!!

is it here yet???