Quite a few years ago, just prior to a previous trip to Europe, I bought a Canon S50 digital point and shoot. It was pretty much the best available small digital camera at the time, with a 5.0 Megapixel sensor. Before leaving on this trip I purchased a Canon S100, which is the latest entry in their premium compact camera line. The S50 still takes excellent pictures in many situations, but I notice three big improvements with the S100 - it's considerably smaller, it has a control ring around the lens that makes adjusting settings much simpler, and it takes dramatically better photos in low light conditions. Here's a shot of the back side of the Hotel de Ville (City Hall) that I took tonight without a tripod as we were strolling by.
On the cultural front, I learned today that the French term for computer - which is
ordinateur - was created in 1955 by a professor at the Sorbonne in response to a request from the French arm of IBM for a suitable translation of the English term, the more literal translation
calculateur having been deemed unsuitable.
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