New Camera Purchase!
Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | 29 Comments 
I was planning on buying a new digital camera this Black Friday. But honestly the Black Friday ads that have come out have been ultra disappointing. The prices haven’t been very good and the cameras offered aren’t any better than my 4 year old 4.1 Sony digital camera really.
:F
I’ve been weighing my options of what I’d like & need in a new digital camera. Mine is starting to crap out. The screen goes fuzzy, it sometimes takes purple photos, the screen tones no longer match the photo taken… so I need to replace it soon. In the end I realized my biggest need was a camera that could take good, clear images at lower light levels without flash. For example, a lot of my photos from Japan look like this 
boxes of colored contacts
boxes of fireworks
The night photo I could understand, even though I was standing perfectly still while taking it. The others were disappointing. The stores were super well lite and the blurriness is just aggravating. So a camera with image stabilization was really my biggest desire. I’ll stop at that, rather than explain EVERY REASON why I chose the following camera…
Fujifilm Finepix F60fd
It’s brand new to the market, 12MP with Dual Image Stabilization, and I got it within my budget range thanks to the looming Black Friday sales :!: I’m really excited to receive it! And if it blows I’ll just return it :haha: But the reviews said it’s suppose to be really good for low lighted situations, so we’ll see.
Speaking of spending I got a few things on crazy sale this weekend too, but I’m waiting on my new camera to come in Tuesday to take pictures. Kinda like, to test it out! 
~anyway~ :calmair:
I finally got around to scanning in these 2 free hostess ad booklets I picked up while in Kabukicho! HAHAHA One is Chibi Maru and the other is PQ Chibi Maru seems more for women looking for hostess clubs (mostly male clubs are advertised here) & hostess jobs, and PQ is a booklet targeting hostess girls providing ads for goods & services they might need in their “line” of work, hahaahh. I know the whole idea of Hostess makes many people nauseous~ however I am not one of those people. So please to enjoy a few scans from these booklets~ I was LOL’ing the entire time I was flipping through these I just 
it so much!
I spared you guys from ads on plastic surgery & boob enhancement,
Jenny posted at 9:24 pm ; Sunday
TAGS: want, rant, shopping, funny stuff, gyaru
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Jenny
Oh those crazy hosts/hostesses
Swimming in their money… =o
Girls have it better because they can wear all kinds of stuff but the guys all come out looking the same with the hair and the black suits
D
My friend keeps telling me to wait until I’m in Japan to buy a camera… but I see all kinds of cameras that are like 10megapixels for like $150 over here =o is there something up with that cuz it sounds really good to me… #_#
What do you think I should do?
Hope that your new camera will be awesome ;D It looks mighty spiffy. *researches*
I looked for a camera in Japan too!! Unless you haggle the price (which you can only do in Akihabara these days & it’s not really as accepted as it used to be) you’re getting the same price as if you were to buy it in the US. I actually thought their prices were worse :X.
Just my opinion
lol
If this art-thing doesn’t work out, maybe hostessin’ is for me!
I totally don’t need a camera but I want one - MP has doubled in just a year!!
WOW! i can’t believe there’s 12 mega pixel cameras now! i got a new one 2 years ago and it’s 7.2 MP! craaazy, but yours looks really cool!
and yaaay! you updated! hahah ^__^
LOL. those scans are all too funny
(￣▽￣)ノ＿彡☆バンバン！!
wow! 12? good
i want a camera too
but i don’t know… sad D:!
hahahaha that type of boys xD
well is funny
i’m buying a camera on black friday, i wanted the casio ex slim and it’s ony $100
that hostess stuff looks a little weird, but i’m kind of drawn to it though -_-;
I hope your new camera works well! It looks very nice^^ Wow, 12 MP! Haha, I think my camera is only 5 or something
Wow, 12 megapixels? Mine is 8.1 megapixels and it’s Sony too. Never tried Fuji digital cameras before either, so not sure if they’re any good,. Please let us know how your new camera works out! =)
I want a camera that’s good at taking pictures at lower light level too. My room is rather dark and kind of “yellowish” so I always have to turn flash on whenever I want my pictures to turn out bright. And my screen tone NEVER matches the picture I take too. They appear SO BRIGHT on my screen and yet they’re SO DARK when I upload them onto my computer! D:
Wow, black friday seems interesting. G;luck with getting a new camera~ The one you want looks very nice n__n
HOLY-! 12 MP…how tempting…
I still remember the last black friday that I went with my friends >.
i watched a documentary on japanese host boys… that made me kind of sad, but i guess its ok if they enjoy doing that kind of work :o
personally i’ve always gotten canon cameras… the light thing is not really an issue because whenever it goes blurry i can set a lower shutter speed
blurry pics are so annoying!
Ahaa u updated
uwaaa 12MP fujifilm?? sounds so cool~~
i got a canon 12MP one over the summer as a gift from my uncle - apparently the one i’ve got is only available in asia and hasn’t been released overseas yet - they didn’t sell the things with an english manual! in the end we had to call the canon headquarters and have them ship us an english manual….so troublesome…but the camera isawesome!!
and i laughed going through the pictures of host clubs… but after reading so much manga and seeing dramas like jotei, i was really surprised at what real life hostesses and hosts look like - i supposed i expected…. prettier people i guess haha. the guys all look like jrockers in suits to me and the girls all look ganguros or at least some form of gyaru with boob jobs… lol
aww, i miss my first digi cam, which was a sony.i loved it soooo much.but it retired on me,..actually i broke it.
DDDD i have 2 new cameras now, a vintage film slr and a prosumer canon.but i still like my first sony cam more. hahahahhaa. but hopefully before this month ends, my dad will finally buy me a new dslr. *crosses fingers*
i have this japanese magazine that a friend sent to me because the guy on the cover is a crush of mine. at first it was okay but i LOLED upon seeing ads on peen surgeries.
DDD well, the magazine IS meant for the male consumer. the peens even had faces!HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA
Wow. A new digital camera? I got a new ipod. I love it so much. The reason why I got a new ipod too is because my mp3 broke and wouldn’t turn on even if I plugged it into the laptop. So yeah congrats on the new camera! Hopefully you’ll be able to take beautiful pictures with this one. I’m sorry the pictures from Japan didn’t come out all that good. I could still make it out though.
How exciting!! Good for you!
)
I hope you really like that camera, and take lots of pictures of your daily life for us who watch your blog! I am hoping to get one soon too.
Do you still like Cutie magazine? Or do you like Non-no better now?
Aww camera envy. My camera’s flash just died so I keep stealing Ray’s but it doesn’t feel the same as having my own camera. I love Fuji-finepix cameras they’re always really good quality photos and my first camera lasted me for years. I still haven’t found one to beat it yet.
Oh yeah, I used to have a Cybershot a long while ago and it sucked, specially night shots. I bought a Cannon 3 years ago ans it’s so much better! And mine doesn’t even have IS! But I don’t think I’ll change it anytime soon, I love my camera, it’s the perfect size and the pictures are still amazing
Oi!
Seu blog é muito lindo. Eu sou brasileira e muitas garota por aqui indicam seu blog. Os scans das revistas são perfeitos!
Acho que você não entenderá meu comentário… mas tudo bem, colcoa no Google Translater!
beijos
EH?! YOU ALREADY STARTED BLACK FRIDAY OVER THERE?! o_0
i thought it was on the 28th.. hmm.. or maybe i’m wrong. hahah. xD i’m glad you found your ideal camera! _
Darn tootin’ inconveniences RSS reader fans. :p Hehe kidding. Not so sure I know *exactly* what you mean by hostess clubs… … maybe. But it was cute looking at their poses. He
and I like the hair style with the braids on the front however weird that may be.
Congrats on finding a digi-cam you really like!!
wow its like a whole magazine *_* yay for new camera! i need one too since im just depending on my phone camera~
haha that makes me laugh, too!
man at the end of RAY there were like 100 pages just for cosmetic surgeries! and american girls complain! we have it EASY! x_x
that camera looks cool. i kind of want a new one, too because mine takes HORRIBLE pictures without a flash indoors but i CAN’T use it when taking pictures of pictures in museums! x_x
LOL!
DDDDDDDDD
I have hostess/host free booklets from Fukuoka
Yay for your new camera! It looks exciting!
The stiffness of those host’s hair is unbelievable. I feel that if I lit a match a foot away from their hair it would burst in flames.
anyways, I feel I should have posted this to you earlier. Sorry. As you can see, I’m a silent reader, but I’ll start commenting sometimes.
Higher resolution cameras usually results in higher image noise, cause the pixels per inch is so high, there’s greater detail, more noise.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1041_3-6156398.html
Personally, I find 7megapixels is already good enough. and to fix your problem with blurriness, a camera with manual settings is always good, if you know how to use them. That way you can choose a higher aperture to and get a faster shutter speed and such.
Hope you find your dream camera!
i found a website in wich u can see full PQ free mag and other hostess oriented free press mags….i wrote the link on my blog …do u want the link????
anyway i love u and ur stuff!!!u made me wanna marry my lover so bad!!!!!!