I’ve been denying the digital world of photography forever. After working for so many years with fine grain black and white film and having total control over the printing process I had a hard time accepting digital cameras and the images that they produce. Fuck digital. It’ll never be as good as film.

All that changed for me on Sunday.

I work for an advertising agency in North Carolina. Every Christmas past, the boss planned a great day (sometimes days) of celebration. One year, it was a three-day cruise, all expenses paid, for all of the employees and their spouses. Last year, we boarded a tour bus at 7:30 on a Saturday morning, having no idea where we were going. Three hours later we stopped in Durham, NC at the mall, the boss handed all of us $500 in cash and we were given two hours to spend it. My kids wanted electronics; didn’t take me long at all to blow the whole thing, even after multiple drinks on the bus on the way there.

This year didn’t disappoint. We played “Lbay”. The boss bought a whole bunch of stuff and gave us all $500 fake money with which to bid on the items available. One of the items I won is an xBox 360. The kids will be very happy on Christmas morning. Heh. I will be very happy on Christmas morning playing the new games on the new system.

The other item I won: A Canon Rebel xti 10 megapixel digital SLR camera. 10 megapixels. TEN!

What’s a megapixel and why does this excite me? Read all about it here . Bottom line is, the more pixels in the image, the better. More pixels, more detail; more detail, the sharper the image. The result? A photographer’s hard-on.

I had never used anything more than a 5 megapixel digital camera. Shitty. Digital wasn’t there yet, the detail was poor and would never compare to t-max 100 film.

Then I used my new Canon this weekend. The detail! The sharpness! I hadn’t experienced a digital camera that produced this quality of image ever. I am sold.

I’ve been really sick so I haven’t had the opportunity to really explore my new camera yet, but I did snap off these shots of my daughter on Sunday night, who is also really sick today. She was just starting to get sick when I took these pictures, the reason why she was such a willing participant.

The eyes are sharp; I can see the detail in her hair; I can almost count her eyelashes.

I’m gonna have some fun with this camera. More digital to come!

Merry Christmas, FTTW. Hope everyone gets what they want this year! I did.

Shawna says Santa is going to get a little extra "something" in addition to cookies and milk this year.

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