My camera is awesome!

No, I don't have a fancy-schmancy (meaning expensive) camera. But wow, I am impressed. No, it's not new. I've had it for two years now. Three? My memory is escaping me. Maybe three. Either way, I can definitely recommend it. Look at this picture.


I was outside, rolling the garbage bin to the curb. As I turned around toward the house, I spied a sliver of the moon over yonder apartments. I ran back inside for my camera. It took some creative balancing of the camera, too. See, my camera is great. But at dusk or low light times, it just sucks. There are enough toots & whistles on this thing that I could probably solve that, but I can't figure out how. I have messed with a couple things, but not liked the results and, thankfully, been able to change it back to the original settings. So at times like this, I have to either pull out my tripod or get creative. I propped the camera up on the utilities meter on the side of my house, snagged a couple shards of bark from my neighbor's landscaping and set the timer. Voila! Non-blurry so-clear-you-can-see-craters-of-the-moon picture. I only wish I could have zoomed further. That's the other beauty of my camera; it has 12x optical zoom. What is that, you ask? There is optical zoom and digital zoom. Optical is the one you want and it's the highest zoom factor in a non-DSLR camera. (as far as I know. It was 3 years ago when I bought it.) Enough technical stuff, I really don't know what I'm talking about! Oh, my camera? Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 Got it on NewEgg.com, great deal. Geez, I sound like a commercial? I need to get paid to do this!