More night photography

While the Canon SD960 has let me down by deleting the low-compression “superfine” image storing capability – meaning that every photo has JPG compression artifacts – they partially made up for it by adding a long exposure setting to the camera. It can now take pics up to 15 seconds. I gave this a shot last night on a moon-lit, partially cloudy night. Apart from the compression issues (BAH!), they came out pretty well. Certainly none of the freakin’ *cloud* of hot pixels that plagued the older camera. Wasn’t quite as appealing a night for photography as the last time I tried this, but still there were some interesting results.