I finally gave in and bought a new camera: a Canon SD630. My previous Pentax Optio 33L was feeling a bit bulky and slow, two problems that are now definitely solved. This new camera is very slim, quick to power up, and pretty quick shot-to-shot, as the clock series shows. Nearly the entire back of the camera is a 3-inch LCD, which makes for a very nice display that’s just a bit tricky to hold.
The controls are well laid out; I particularly like how accessible the exposure compensation (flash level) is. The flash is overpowering for close shots, so most of the indoor night ones here are with a lower level. Normally, I’d finish fine tuning them in Picasa, but these are raw as they came from the camera. Getting these onto the computer brought back deja vu from my last Canon camera, which required gphoto. I actually still have my shell script from those days, and it even reminded me that the camera needed to be set on play!
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