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This place looks really nice, it has a sense of style...

One thing I haven't yet found out - are there any groups?
If anyone knows, pls let me know! 

I don't know about, but here it is much faster than Flickr... in spite of all the additional multimedia and richer interface features. And the Greasemonkey script is just perfect!

I am seriously considering migrating from Flickr...

It would be a nice incentive to become Pro if Ipernity would allow us to do a one time migration from Flickr, regardless of the monthly Pro limit. This is ectstaticist's idea, which I wholeheartedly embrace.

What do you think?

After some experimenting, I have decided to become Pro. Partly, because I believe the site developers are doing a very nice job, and they probably need any financial support they can get.

But besides this, I really like the environment here, and I want to be able to upload more stuff. I (foolishly) used up my entire 200Mb quote in my first batch upload, and now I find myself wanting to upload more and having to wait until next month :-(.

Since my Flickr pro account won't expire so soon, I think I will have to find what is a comfortable balance for me of involvement in both sites; I strongly suspect I will be spending increasingly more time here, but time will tell!

I'm thinking about getting a new camera... but here is my dilemma. I really love the Canon SD700 IS I currently use, it's small but quite versatile and powerful. Most of the shots in my  photostream were taken with it.

Back in the analog days I had a Pentax MX body, with several lenses, including a fantastic 35-205 zoom lens that I used most of the time (I also had a 28mm, a 50mm and a 105mm). Plus the tripod, filters, cables, the whole works. But the whole gear was cumbersome to carry arround, so I eventually stopped using it. By the time I got married and had kids, I was doing mostly "social" photos, and a point-and-shoot camera was more than enough. But the children grew up, and I resumed my old passion...

When I started taking pictures again, now in the digital era, I first started with low-end cameras (still took some nice pictures with them - e.g., my Porto shots), and moved up to the SD700. But I miss a couple of features, mostly a stonger telephoto lens, the ability to do bracketing automatically, and eventually being able to take raw format pictures.

But I'm not ready yet to go back to the full DSLR format, and shlepping all that equipment around. So I am considering getting a larger format, super tele camera such as the Canon S3 (now S5), or G7. There are equivalent models from Sony and Panasonic, among others.

My question is, does anyone have experience with this kind of camera? Any advice?

I would love to hear your feedback!