Karl got me thinking about cameras lately.  His company is taking its employees on a cruise next month (lucky SOB), and he was wanting some info on cameras.  I'm still using my beloved Canon Powershot SD300.  It's served me well over the years.  It's a wonderful, portable point & click that gives nice results for its size and price.  I know the entire line has been successful, and there are numerous newer versions than mine, with larger viewscreens and image stabilization features.

I used to take a lot of pictures at game nights, and you can see a lot of those in the gallery section of the site.  Over the past year, I've slacked off a lot and have missed some memorable events, like epic Arkham Horror nights, countless Twilight Struggle duels with Jay, and all-day gaming sessions at Allen's house.  I made a commitment last month to start taking more pictures, but so far it hasn't panned out.  I'll recommit myself here to taking more gaming pictures and posting them on the blog.  After all, that's one of the main things I enjoy about other gaming blogs.

Even though I'm generally happy with my SD300, it does take some bad pictures sometimes.  (or rather, I take bad pictures with it, sometimes)  My main problem is taking pictures of an entire table of gamers, under indoor lighting.  Indoor lighting tends to be yellow-ish, and unsuitable for pictures without flash.  But the flash on the SD300 is rather harsh, and tends to bring out the people playing the game, but obscure the view of the table.  This is also a problem when I try to take macro (or at least closeup) pictures of game components.  The flash isn't an option, but yellow light bulb lighting doesn't make for a good picture.  My best pictures seem to come from game conventions, where the overhead lighting is bright, white, and fluorescent. 

But I can't complain too much.  For a point-and-shoot, it takes pretty good pictures.  It performed exceptionally well on our honeymoon:

The bay at Anse Chastanet resort in St. Lucia

A view of our beach

We did play one game on the trip - Settlers Card Game

If anyone knows a good web resource on basic photography with point & shoot cameras, I'd be glad to hear about it.  Hopefully this won't send me down the path of reading up on photography, and ultimately spending too much money on a new camera that I really don't need.