Oh, yes, I’ve been wanting one of these for a while now. David has one, and his photos always come out with much more depth and richness than my current camera can give. In the May road trip album, all the pictures I took in Moab of rock art came out pretty “meh” because of the glare, and the fact that I couldn’t change focus (much) on my camara – it has digital zoom, which I found did not work very well on pictures I took for the England trip. David’s, meanwhile, came out much better, though a stepladder might have been handy for shooting the art at the same level.

That’s not to say that my pictures totally suck – I got some good ones of both near and distant subjects, but I can’t really do anything about the exposure, or to deal with glare.

So anyway, new camera arrives this week. Hoping to get out with it next weekend, weather permitting. It’s very cool that David found me a Canon EOS Digital Rebel for such a good deal – fortunately, it comes with a very good lens. I don’t think I’ll go wacky and start buying a lot of junk for it aside from a haze filter (which is more for protecting the lens than anything) and a polarizing filter.