(review continued) These two contraints - what you want to do with the aperture or shutter speed, and what the camera needs to do to give you a good exposure - sometimes come into conflict. If you take a picture of moving water, you often want a slow shutter speed (1/30th to 1 second, depending on the effect), but if it's a sunny day, you'll overexpose at that shutter speed. Enter the neutral-density filter. With the the filter, you get a 3-stop (3 factors of 2, or 1/8th) decrease in the

Our trip to Maui involved lots of camera issues. We're a Canon family, with a G1 for me, an A20 (the aforementioned waterlogged A20) for my wife, and a low-end Canon for my 9-year-old daughter (bought after she shot 15 rolls of APS film in Europe last year). My G1 has been a great camera. It's not quite as flexible as an SLR - you don't get interchangable lenses, and it doesn't zoom enough to do kid's sports, but overall I take a lot more pictures. My plan was to take the G1 to Maui with me, but