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Travel to Spain and Italy, with our last night in France - September 2003. This was a five week trip and we had a great time. We visited many places: Seville, Jaen, Granada, the Costa del Sol and then on to Tuscany, Vineyards, San Gimignano, Siena, Impruneta, Cinque Terre, Monterosso al Mare and a castle in Umbria overlooking Lago Trasimeno and Tuscany.

Spain, September 2003 - 4 week trip.

Jvi
2004-09-14 11:58:51

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We met a lot of people, as we usually do, with some we shared a drink, some a taxi, some a meal and some a table. Some we just met and talked to. To all of you, thanks for including us in your holiday.

All of the photos on this trip were taken with an Olympus C-700 Digital Camera. In five weeks we took over 900 photos, some were actually good. We haven't yet had many made into prints and that is one of the bad things about digital cameras, you have to make an effort to get those prints made, it's not enough to just look at them on the computer. We usually upload them to Wal-Mart to have prints made for 29 cents US each. The digital photos were 1600x1200 and saved in the Olympus HQ Mode resulting in a file size of about 400-500 kilobytes. I used Photoshop to reduce the size and resolution of the photos on these web pages to about 10% of the original size. We no longer carry a 35mm camera with us. I had about 712 megabytes of SmartMedia with me. I had an international voltage charger for the 2 sets of 4 NiMH AA batteries and never had a problem even after days of shooting with the same set. The C-700 seems to be easy on the batteries. I carried the C-700 in a small "fanny pack". Because the size was small we carried it everywhere. I have now "upgraded" to a smaller Canon S400, 4 megapixel camera. It's the size of a pack of playing cards and uses Compactflash memory. One of my complaints about the Olympus C-700 was the size. With the Canon I can put it in my pocket or carry it in a small carrying case that attaches to my belt, it looks like a small cell phone. It takes good photos but I miss the 10x optical zoom on the C-700. I have not decided whether to carry both cameras on our next trip. My main problem was going out to dinner at night, I didn't want to have to carry the larger camera. I've taken the Canon on several trips to Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, and it is much easier to carry around, especially at ...