On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:23:49 -0700, JR North
wrote:

I love my Canon Powershot G2. Cost $600 in '03. completely auto, or
every manual adjustment a top of the line 35mm SLR has. And then some.
You can pick them up on Ebay for under $100 used. Also, any camera you
can't adjust the compression on is junk, in my NSHO.
JR

Thanks. I'll keep the compression adjustment in mind.
From my preliminary reading it seems the inability of point and shoot
cameras to take good pics in low light (outside sunsets, clouds at
dusk, etc.) is that the light metering isn't done through the lens.
But I also found out my A1100 has settings for exposure metering I
didn't know about or try. Duh.
So I'm going to read the manual and experiment a little.
I'll try at sunset tomorrow.
Might stay with it, might not.
Funny how I have to read so much and go through so many menu screens
with this thing to hopefully get it to do what my hands instinctively
did with the SRT-102. Aperture/shutter combos for depth of field?
No problem. Low light, flash batteries dead or I just want soft
tones? No problem.
But at least digital is fast and you can see the results quickly.
Shouldn't be too hard. I learned to save phones numbers in my 3 year
old cell phone a few weeks ago while on vacation.
Didn't take my son with me, so I had no choice.

--Vic