Screw it, I'll keep shooting cats - with this:
Yep, it's about time I got me a decent camera. Now bad photos will be entirely my fault. Ironically, this would be the very first time my finger slips into the frame (see 1st pic).
Unfortunately I suspect it has a hot pixel. I'll test it some more, I'd hate to have to return it.
Looks like a fine camera
It's great to finally have a camera that has more settings than just white balance in manual mode. To those interested, this setup would be this camera, this lens, and this flash unit.
And a hot pixel is a pixel in the sensor that is always white (kinda like stuck pixels in LCD monitors). It's a bit upsetting that every photo has that pixel completely white. It's a turn off