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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 3243547" data-attributes="member: 665">Troubie,Well, you're not helping his case with that photo! True, analog cameras can create reflections and such, but digital cameras, particularly the point & shoot variety that I have (Coolpix) can really make some weird stuff happen. For example, digital zooms are crap. I was trying to take a photo of a squirrel in the backyard that I fed a peanut because it looked like it had something sticking out of its head, I suspect a bot fly nest, but the digital zoom under rather dismal conditions didn't do it much justice. Boosting the light control only made more "noise." If I had my old Canon SLR analog camera with 100 ISO film, I could have increased the exposure or opened up the aperture and gotten more detail. Perhaps expensive higher pixel DSLRs with optical zooms can perform similarly, but not my Coolpix. For $99 + $39 for the memory card, it performs adequately in normal light, but under less than ideal conditions, the autofocus doesn't work, the digital zoom makes the image fuzzy, and the resulting pixelation shows artifacts that aren't there (or that only exist in a parallel world inhabited by pixies). </blockquote>