New ToyI have a very nice SLR camera, but everything is going digital these days. Normal teeny digital cameras just don't cut it though. The tiny aperture on most cameras result in blurry jittery pictures, and don't work well in low light conditions.

I just pre-ordered this Pentax K-X. Will be shipped sometime in October. It has some really nice features:

Can take HD movies @ 720 resolution and 24 frames per second.

Has automatic High Dynamic Range (HDR). What this does is take 3 exposures at different integration times, and then smartly puts them back together into a single picture. This allows seeing extremely dark and bright areas in a photo all at the same time.

Uses normal AA batteries. Part of the reason I stopped using my SLR camera is that I never seemed to have the right special batteries to put in it. Plus it was too bulky.

12.4 Megapixels. Roughly thats 3500x3500 pixels, way better than any TV or computer monitor out there.

100-12800 ISO rating! That means works well in dark environments.

Oh yeah, also has unique white body and lens color.

Coming to a holiday near you soon!