Randy Berbaum wrote:

Unfortunately most P&S type cameras are very poor at night shots. This is
why many of us who like to occasionally "play in the dark" tend towards
DSLRs. The more manual control you have the more options. For example an
SLR set to bulb, set to the smallest f-stop (most open), manually focused,
on a solid tripod, with a shutter speed of 30 or 40 seconds can capture
some images that are just not possible in any other way.

Agreed. And yet... someone I know took this:

http://mikebeauchamp.com/dump/windmill1comp%20copy.jpg

Canon A510, tripod, 100 stacked images...

http://mikebeauchamp.com/images/show...go-2006&pic=20

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