Response from: Mary Jo    (09/28/06 2:35am)

I was the lucky recipient of a new digital camera for my birthday, and now am spending time learning how to get the most out of it. I've been taking lots of photos, and even though there really aren't any that I'm ready to share, I do notice some improvement. I would never have been able to do this kind of practice with film.

Response from: Tim    (10/08/06 5:07pm)

That's a pretty good--and useful--trick. For at least a decade I've used a similar one with point and shoot cameras in tough lighting conditions. By putting one eye of your polarized sunglasses over the lens of your camera, voila you have a polarized filter. Quite useful if you're hiking among snow-capped mountains or are out on a sailboat.