Canon EOS Rebel XSi floods Yosemite

Theresa with new Canon XSi

Theresa with new Canon XSi

Really. This camera seems to be everywhere these days. It’s the hip thing to buy in Yosemite – a Canon XSi – all the cool people have one or are getting one. Ours arrived on Monday, and I’ve begun my first experiments with it. So far it’s just a big, fancy point-and-shoot with shutter and aperture priority, because I haven’t figured out how to use it yet. It comes with a tome of a manual. That should keep me busy for a while.

We’ve had an interesting evolution of camera lust in our household. At first, Tom was the one who was interested in photography and I was the one who nodded and said, "Yes, well, I’m just a snap-shotter.  Go ahead and get a nice camera for yourself."  But then I really started to enjoy taking pictures with the nicer Lumix camera that my dad bought for Tom a few years ago, and I started saying, "Tom, you should really upgrade to an SLR so that I can take over the Lumix".  And Tom, being the generous sort of person he is, shared the Lumix with me, until I started to think that maybe *I* wanted a big fancy camera, and gradually it turned into "I think WE should get a dSLR".  So it was, that somehow after Tom had done all the research about cameras, and lenses, and shopped for deals, that when we bought this camera it was MY camera.