Spent yesteday at a barbecue/party with friends in Wappingers Fall, NY. The scenery was pretty on the drive up, but I didn’t feel like stopping to take a picture. There were all sorts of great opportunities for pix at the party, but I brought Amy’s super-camera with me and never took it out of the car. It sorta highlights my dilemma with upgrading my digital camera: I really don’t want a camera that will be hanging from my neck or shoulder, but I don’t know if I can get really good shots with a camera that fits in my pocket.
The party was great, albeit overrun with at least a dozen kids under the age of 4. A bunch of us childless people hung out in the cold on the front porch, bantering while avoiding parental responsibilities.
Anyway, to make up for the lack of pix yesterday, Amy & I (she stayed home Saturday with a cold) drove up to Ringwood Manor this morning and she played with the settings of her camera. She tested the high-color RAW file settings, which yielded some tremendous images. The ones we uploaded to flickr are shrunk and converted to JPG, so some of the detail and color is lost. But the original files are about 14 mb each, so it’s a tradeoff.
