I'd even wish I could retake some of my earlier trips even with my equipment from 5 years ago! As lowly as a P&S like the 717 may be next to a DSLR and the right set of lenses, it still would have been a bunch more camera than I had been using from 1997 to 2003 - a 1MP Mavica FD91, with the original floppy disk drive! It was cool technology for the day, but whenever I go back and look at my trips to: New Orleans, Las Vegas, North Carolina mountains, Quebec City, Columbia, throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, and Los Angeles - I almost cry. Little, itty-bitty 1024x768 photos are all I've got from those trips...I actually would have been better off with my film cams, but I was so keen on embracing the new technology.
I've got boxes of photos (and negatives) from 1978 to 1998 or so, taken with my SLRs - but with the cost of film, my lack of skill, and my only-halfhearted interest in photography, I took 1/50th as many photos back then - and most were just with friends or family in them smiling or waving. Fun to have the family memories, but I kick myself when I think of all the places I went and things I have seen that I failed to photograph scenically: England, Ireland, Canada, South America, Mexico, and 24 states of the US, all with a small, half-blocked monument or historical site in the background behind a member of my family. Look! There's the top right side of Big Ben behind Anne's head! Wow! It's the birthplace of St. Patrick there under the left arm of my mother's waving hand! Hey! That's the very top of the highest mountain in the southern hemisphere growing out of Bill's head!
Yep...I've got alot of trips to try to make up with better camera and better skill in hand. Now, just need to win the lottery to pay for all the travel...
