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Don't you just love opening packages?

Dad came home yesterday with a surprise package: a brand-new Canon Digital IXUS i Zoom. My brother bought a Canon Digital IXUS II a few years back and it worked fine for a while, until it conked out sometime two years ago. He turned it in for repairs, and I don't know why, but the good fellas at Canon decided to just totally replace it with a IXUS i Zoom. How nice of them, except that they could've done it before I went to Singapore, Seattle, and San Antonio. (I had to make do with a lousy film camera on those trips.)

Anyway, this new IXUS is pretty neat. 5 megapixels, 2.4x optical zoom, yadda yadda yadda. It has a nice "cradle" which is used for charging and connecting to a computer. They were also kind enough to provide two power cords with different plugs, except that neither of them fit in standard Philippine power outlets. Geez.

If you followed the link above to the IXUS i Zoom, you'll notice that it's dated August 22, 2005: my birthday last year. So I guess I'll be keeping this to myself as an overdue birthday present. I don't think my brother needs another digital camera anyway; he's got a PowerShot A620 anyway (we just love our Canon digital cameras, don't we?).

BTW, it's my nephew Anton's 3rd birthday today and we have a little family get-together to celebrate. What a great opportunity to try this baby out!

Labels: :D, Canon, digital cameras, gadgets, IXUS i Zoom