When I told friends of my S$300 budget for a new digicam, everyone said it was impossible budget. But as it turns out, anything is possible at the IT show.

The few of us headed down to the show on sat, and werent expecting to spend 5.5hrs at the fair, but we did. thank gdness it was a fruitful one; i managed to pick up a new cam under the given budget.

behold people - the samsung L700!

personally i felt that it was a gd buy because it comes with manual and movie functions, 2.5" LCD, 7.2 MP, and the ISO range from 50-1600. min shutter 15 sec and max 1/2000sec. multi and spot metering. it was also (quite) amazing that the camera allowed you to adjust the RGB balance. The L700 is a compact digcam that is a lot slimmer than my previous canon powershot. better yet, it came in black! and samsung gave away SD cards worth 5GB of memory.. all for only $299! quite unbelievable isn't it?

both deb and i were swayed from the panasonic camp to samsung. she ended up buying the NV10 instead, which costs $599, still cheaper than panasonic anyway.

i was rather annoyed with one of the canon promoter. when asked why the powershot A460 didnt come with manual function, he replied, "ma'am.. at such a price ($279) between higher resolution and functions, something's gotta give.." like wtf. the A460 was only a 5.0MP digicam can! well, apparently samsung proved that it is possible to have both higher resolution AND manual mode. suck on that, canon!

I also managed to get a 256RAM for my snail slow laptop at $41 and a 1GB Mp3 player (but no brand one lar) for $59. but still, it's 1GB worth of space! are electronics getting freaking cheap of what? but IT shows are evil nevertheless.. it makes you spend non stop. and if you've read today's news, the entire fair raked in a total of $48 million.. what economic slow-down?

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