New toy!

 It came, it came!

My new camera, if course.  :)

I couldn't resist taking it around my house trying things out. My first thirty or so shots were completely useless, but I started getting the hang of some things once I figured out how to change the aperture. 

 

I don't think these are great photos, but they're the best of the sixty or so shots I took tonight. The first was a close up of my sleeping cat (the only time he holds still long enough for photos). Aperture was set at 2.0 as the room had very bad lighting, and dusk meant little was coming in through the window. I was surprised; this looked lighter in the photo than reality. Also, this is the first picture I've ever taken of him that actually showed the cream colored nimbus his fur has. He's a bengal cat who started out a "snow bengal" all white, and as he grew up, his fur darkened, but the tips all stayed very light. No point-and-shoot photo I've ever taken has even hinted at that.

( Pics fairly large, behind the cut. )