Getting What I Don’t Deserve - Canon 40D

“We may not always get what we want, we may not get what we need, just so long as we don’t get what we deserve.”

That quote (from the movie True Colors starring John Cusack and James Spader) has always amused me. A friend of mine and I used to quote it to each other when one or the other was frustrated about not having something we felt we “had to have” and it usually brought a grin and bit of a reality check. Yesterday was my birthday and not only did I not get what I deserve I got something I truly don’t deserve - a Canon 40D.

My wife and kids spent way too much money on me and got me this truly beautiful camera. I had been using an old Olympus E-10 as my camera and while it was great in it’s day it is limited by being only a 4 megapixel camera. (When I bought it that seemed quite impressive of course!) The E-10 was a replacement to my first ever SLR camera a Canon EOS 10s which shot regular film. Since I still have both previous cameras I took a shot of them also, I used my wifes point and shoot Canon Digital Elph SD750 for the photos.

I bought the original Canon right after my daughter was born. It was not the latest model then but it was a very solid camera for the money and it served me well. A number of years later I bought the Olympus when friends of mine were getting married and asked me to shoot the wedding for them. They didn’t have the money to hire someone and if I hadn’t done it they would probably have had disposable camera photos and that’s it. The Olympus was not brand new either but it offered a good picture for the price and was really all I could afford at the time. Generally speaking the pictures turned out good and the newlyweds were thrilled with what I was able to give them.

I have a job for this new camera as well. My nephew is getting married this summer and has asked me to take the pictures for him. (Did I mention my brother is a lot older than I am?) I had been planning on getting a new digital slr in the next year anyway but this request gave my wife the excuse to spoil me. (Again - way more than I deserve)

So now I’m off to the store to buy a couple of compact flash cards for the camera. Good thing a couple of my birthday cards had checks in them because I’m sure my checking account is pretty low.