Digital pics

FYI, that digital pic of Tina was taken with our new Sony DVD handycam. The still picture quality isn't up to that of our Olympus D-520 Zoom, but it's passable. The video quality is really good, as is sound quality. It records in 5.1-channel surround sound. There's nothing I own that plays back in surround sound, so it's a bit of overkill...but it works. And it's very easy to use.

The Olympus takes good enough pictures for me. It's a bit finicky about when it takes them, and it seems to leave the shutter open for a while, so I take some blurry photos. But otherwise it's pretty good. It's a few years old, though, so there's probably something better on the market by now.

If you want digital photo software, I like Picasa. It's free from Google and has all the cool features you like on a digital photo program. (I get nothing for saying this, just trying to be helpful.) It tries to link to another program called, stupidly enough, "Hello," for putting pics up on blogs. But Blogger now has an easy "upload photos" feature, so just use Picasa for what it is.