In another attempt to stop being so focused on gear, I made a recent trip down to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to check out the flood damage and only brought along a small Canon point and shoot. It's a very capable little camera (SD800IS), but it has all the usual limitations of having a small sensor (lots of noise on anything above ISO200 and no way to get shallow DoF).I processed almost all of the images in Black & White and was actually surprised at how much I liked the results. I definitely missed the exposure latitude of RAW files, but I think they worked out well enough anyway. I think the noise can actually look decent with the image in B&W (to my eyes anyway...).
Overall it was a fun exercise and a good reminder that the camera really doesn't matter as much as I think it does most days. It's much more important to simply get out there and shoot.
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