My birthday is in 3 weeks time. I’ve planned to get myself a new camera around that time as a gift for myself. I currently am looking at the Canon SX110 IS.

It is a superzoom mid range camera. A 9 MP with 10 x optical zoom. I don’t know what to call it. A bridge camera? a compact camera? or perhaps both. Selling for $230 at Amazon.com at the moment. One important factor why I consider this camera is because of the AA batteries used to power it up. I just can’t stand rechargeable packed camera. With AA batteries, if the juice runs out, they are available everywhere.

Wish my other half would be generous enough to pay for it, but he has to go for a dental check up and touch up. Wish he’d get some dental care discounts. Perhaps then he’d consider to buy me the camera as a present? It’s nothing wrong to hope, right?

The camera that I am having now is a Powershot A400. 3.2 MP with 2.2 X optical zoom. A very good camera. Going on 5 years now with thousands of pictures and hundreds of videos taken and it is still working great. So why do I have to buy a new one? Well, I’d like a camera that can zoom in and out while taking videos. Mine doesn’t do that. The SX110 IS does. Further, by watching test video samples, seems like it takes better quality videos too.

So that’s it, wait a few more weeks and I will be playing with a new camera.