2009, meet 1999.
I took advantage of Circuit City’s going out of business to buy myself a new pocket-sized camera. It will see use primarily for this very Project 365 (in fact, it did for yesterday’s photo), but I will also use it for travel & social events where the DSLR is a chore.
The venerable old Coolpix 950 has served me well — it went with me to a lot of places, including Africa, and took thousands of shots with very few hiccups. Its 2 megapixels are more than sufficient for web work, and even 10 years old it takes a fine photograph. It was state of the art when new. But by modern standards it is huge, slow, and heavy.
The new camera is much smaller, much snappier, has a very nice screen, and a quite useful 28-280mm (equivalent) zoom range. I hope it serves me as well as its predecessor.