What kind of camera do you have ?

[angus]

This is not bad.  At 16 megapixels, you're getting into overkill.  How many pixels does your monitor actually have, even on its highest setting?  Unless you intend to blow everything up to poster size, then anything more than about 4 megapixels is overdone.

That said, I have an 8 megapixel camera myself. 

[angus]

Grip is good.  I generally try stuff out in stores, then order on-line. 

I took a long time to warm up to digital photography.  I was still using my film camera as recently as 5 years ago.  It's a nice minolta with a heavy zoom lens.  The kind you adjust by turning with your other hand, the old-fashioned way.  I always got excellent pictures.

Then, my wife got a Sony 4.2-megapixel camera, and I haven't taken a decent picture since.  I think it's because I know I can shoot with impunity.  So I'm impatient.  Instead of waiting an hour in the mosquito-infested jungle for that toucan to fly over, I just start shooting right away.  Hey, I'm not wasting film.  And I take, like, five pictures of everything, knowing that at least one of them will turn out right.  So, when I get back from vacation, instead of having one hundred really kick-ass photos, I have five hundred mediocre ones.

About a year ago I bought an 8 megapixel digital zoom camera.  I got that one because it's waterproof to 150 meters.  I wanted something good for diving, and I was tired of those little disposable ones which you can take down to about 5 meters, but if you go deeper they suck in and don't work anymore, even after you come back up to five meters depth.

Now, we generally use the 4.2 Sony for everyday use, and when I go the tropics or anywhere else where I might find myself under 100 feet of seawater, I bring my 8 megapixel Sea Life camera.  Like you, I haven't tried out all the features. 

And I still come home with 500 mediocre pictures.