I now have a Nikon Coolpix 5200. And it is wonderful :-)

A few quick snaps around leamington, not post processed other than rotating the images.

Initial impressions are that it’s exactly what I wanted – tiny, light, producing very good looking images, and very responsive to use (feels a lot quicker than the canon Ixus cameras). You don’t have a lot of control compared to the “enthusiast” cameras, can’t set an apature manually for example, but that’s not what I want this camera for. For anything that I’ll be shooting with this, I just want maximum depth of field, so that is fine.

So today, I saw someone (who looked like an international student) driving onto campus. Fair enough. But they were driving from lakeside. For f*ck’s sake.