I was doing a little housecleaning of the photographic kind on my PC the other day and discovered that I had taken a lot of photos with my two digicams in 2006, 5,797 images according to Picasa 2. There is still time for me to make it to 6,000 before year end.

Part of this plethora of photographic splendour is due to my using from time to time auto bracketing, up to five bracketed exposures. I also set my Nikon 5700 Coolpix to low speed continuous shooting and blaze away. The idea with this is that the first shot is prone to camera motion if the light is low and the shutter speed is slow, but once I hold the shutter down the second and succeeding shots are likely to be steadier.  So duplicates and useless images have accumulated.

I would hate to think what the cost in film processing would have been for the year.

My other digicam is a Canon G2. Problem with it is the two rechargeable batteries have been reused so much since I purchased it that they are now declining to hold a charge. I have asked Santa for a new battery. The G2's 50 ISO setting and f2.0 lens (the 5700 is f2.8) can make for some very nice images. I won't be getting the Canon battery at around $140, but a generic.