“Gates of the Valley”, Yosemite National Park. Photo © Jared Doty.
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Can a hand-held, 6 megapixel point-and-shoot digital camera take a better photo than an expensive 12.8 megapixel D-SLR and a high quality lens?

As soon as we arrived at “Gates of the Valley” (also called “Valley View”), my son Jared took a series of seven, hand-held, vertical photos with a Canon Powershot S3 IS camera. I was busy setting up my tripod.

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