toys are wonderful

I love my 6 MP Panasonic digital camera. I've had it almost 2 years now and I'm still very happy with it. But. I might be replacing it tonight. The camera I have, you see, is the Panasonic DMC-FZ7, a six-megapixel digicam with a high-quality Leica DC VARIO-ELMARIT 12x optical zoom (35mm to 430mm equivalent) on it.

Amazon is putting the successor to it, the Lumix DMC-FZ8, on sale tonight at 11pm and they're selling it at $200. That's practically free for a 7 MP with a high quality 12X optical zoom. At that price I'm willing to buy it just for the new lens aspect.

Isn't it pretty? Mmmmm.

I do love toys!

Update: I bought it last night at 11:12pm for $199.99 It uses the same size battery as my old camera so that's nice--now I have two and can shoot twice as long.