Here’s Amy’s batch<\/a>, with her much better Kodak EasyShare P880. The colors are much more vivid than what I can get from the Minolta, and she’s got much better zoom and control with it.<\/p>\nI oughtta upgrade, but I’d hate to carry a large camera with a zoom lens, and I don’t think I can get really good quality from any of the minis out there. So you guys will probably just have to suffer my poor photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We shouldn’t have taken that afternoon nap, since we’re now wide awake at midnight. Grr. But, since we’re up, we decided to process today’s Paris pix and upload them to flickr. Here’s my batch, shot on a Minolta Dimage Xt, the little pocket-sized camera I tote around. Here’s Amy’s batch, with her much better Kodak … <\/p>\n
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