New Camera

So seeing that the old camera was getting colors a bit "orangey" and "too dark" on the low-light setting but "too bright and uneven" on flash, I bought a new one in May.  And then just let it sit for 2 months...

So I decided to set it up yesterday.  Reconsidering, I shouldn't have chosen it.  I was looking for a simple camera and this one said "for kids and seniors" and it was cheap.  Since I only use a camera for blog pics, that sounded fine.  I probably should have read the specifications more carefully.

There are some oddities about it.  No "low-light" setting.  No semi-click while it focuses.  And the buttons are annoyingly monochrome silver, which makes them difficult to read.  

It takes surprisingly large pictures.  The only choices are 24/36/44 MB.  I have no use for that. I reduce everything to 200-300 KB anyway.

But all that may not matter.  I took a few test pictures around the house and outside.  I haven't tried to process any yet (I don't want 2 different series of sequentially-numbered pics in my folders).  The camera display does show them as accurate in color and single-click works (the pics show as clear.  

I'll take pictures of identical scenes with both cameras and compare them.  Flash and low-light using the old one and normal (the only choice) with the new one.  If the new one results in better pics than the old one I will start using that one.  

I save originals at full size and processed ones at 200-300 (see above).  But I'm sure not going to save originals at 24 MB!  So I would have to reduce the size of the originals too.  Actually, I'm not sure why I save originals.  I suppose because I have the space to do it.  I may have to rethink that.  

I think the new camera will produce better pictures.  We'll see...