Photog

My old point-and-shoot Canon from my 18th birthday simply will not produce the type of pictures I want for this summer's trip to Austria.

Let me rewind a bit here. Four years ago (cue a flood of high school memories) my parental units gifted me a nice digital ISO camera. Three years later I used it to make a photo slideshow on my own story Web page in my introductory class to online journalism class.

In short of six week I will embark to Europe for the Salzburg media program hosted by my university, which covers global media literacy. I hope even more timely blog posts then, by the way. Now I need help choosing an affordable camera that will take mesmerizing pik-churs for me. I'm leaning towards a Pentax, but as a clueless photog-to-be I need advice. I especially love those vintage shots that look straight from the 70s. Not sure whether that's a filter on a photo software like Photoshop or a camera setting?

Questions aside I hope to take wonderfully, journalistic photographs.