The way to shop...

So, a few of our friends have these very fancy cameras and John has been salivating over them and pleading his case for why in fact we need one. I mean there's all these great sights that we can more appropriately capture and soon Cosmo will be here for us to take pictures of....all sorts of reasons we need this semi-professional camera.

Well, we hit up Bic Camera which is this huge department store that is full of electronics and other crazy things like toys, wine, everything. We hit pay dirt with an English speaking sales guy that can answer all our questions perfectly. But we need to price shop, so we scurry across town to Akihabara, which is the electronic area of Tokyo. I've seen nothing like it before....department store upon department store of electronics. Well, said camera was a little more expensive, so we trek back to Bic Camera to ask a few more questions of our fabulous sales guy. We end up pulling the trigger on the camera and we ask him about a memory card.

He pulls out the options and they are quite pricey. He leans over and says....are you familiar with Akihabara? If so, I would recommend going there for the memory card as you can get the same thing for half price. We were so shocked that he was giving us this great recommendation and we of course thank him. He then proceeds to say that he is a student and he is only a part time employee therefore gets no commission and...wait for it...besides that no one can understand what he's telling us anyway, so that is what he would recommend. I almost fell on the floor laughing.....

Until next time...Jenn

JRS Note: I totally admit that I had camera envy. And after only a short time period, I think we can highly recommend the Nikon D90 Digital SLR. Because sometimes, 11.0 megapixels and 3.5 frames per second just aren't enough. And it shoots HD movies! So expect better pictures and movies on a Tokyo blog near you coming soon.