Well it’s been a while since I last splashed out and bought a new gadget (almost a year with TomTom being the last major purchase in November 2005), but I decided I needed a compact digital camera. I have my big digital camera, but it’s just too clunky to carry around everywhere. Enter the Canon Digital Ixus 65. It’s a great little 6 megapixel camera with a giant 3-inch screen on the back. It’s small enough to fit in your pocket and loaded with a 2GB SD card, it can take a whopping 1800 odd shots at medium resolution. I got a great deal on it - just over $400 from an online store. The RRP is $580 so I’m happy with that.
I’m sure that the new purchase will inspire me to take far too many photos than I need to, which of course makes it tough to keep them all organised. Which brings me to Aperture. Apple recently released Aperture version 1.5 and this new update fixes many of the problems that stopped me from using it to manage my media when it first came out. Now that Aperture allows you to keep your photos in any folder instead of importing them into it’s “library” and it lets you keep thumbnails of images and burn the masters to CD for archiving, I think it’ll be a great asset to have. Time will tell of course, so I’ll just have to wait and see.