With our upcoming trip to Taiwan planned for June, I decided it was time to upgrade our secondary camera.
Normally I use my Canon DSLR for most of my photography, but that’s just not always convenient to haul around. Chu-Wan’s got our old Sony Cybershot, which is a lot more portable, but it’s now 6 years old and beginning to wear out.
Based on a lot of reading on Steve’s Digicams I decided that a Canon SD600 was a good fit for us. Very small, decent picture quality and, most important, fast on startup. I can’t tell you how many pictures we missed because of the slow startup on the Sony. (My Canon, like most DSLRs, has a near instantaneous startup.)
Just as I was getting ready to order it, the next generation, the SD1000 came out and since it was basically the same camera with slightly higher megapixels, higher ISO capability and some other technological improvements (for roughly the same price) I decided to go with it.
I ordered it on the 14th from Amazon.com and was amazed that it shipped the same day.
So here’s the problem, I’m tracking the package and this is what I get:
Shipment Date: April 14, 2007
Destination: PHOENIX, AZ, USA
Estimated Arrival: May 2, 2007
It shipped from Wilmington OH. Google says thats 1,893 miles by road and can be driven in 1 day, 3 hours.
DHL will apparently take 18 days.
That’s 105 miles per day.
I’ve ridden further in a single day on a bicycle. That’s slower than the Pony Express back in 1860.
I’m glad I didn’t wait until May to order this, it might not arrive before we left the country.
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