Following in the footsteps of my brother, our new Nikon D50 dSLR camera arrived today in the mail (he’s got the even fancier D70). It’s a fancy schmancy digital camera that takes pictures like a real SLR camera, has all the features of an SLR, but it’s digital. You can replace the lens with other types for different shooting purposes and conditions.

I haven’t taken "real" photographs since my senior year in High School, so I’m a little rusty. Luckily the camera takes excellent pictures on full auto, and then for certain situations custom settings can be used. I bought a 2 gig SD card which can take over 600 pictures on max JPG settings, or 250 in RAW.

We don’t have kids yet, so here’s pictures of the dog.