What best way to take Christmas light photos with Kodak EasyShare camera?

On 23 Dec 2006 00:07:53 EST, John Turco wrote:

Yep, it was very easy to find your picture, both ways. It's a
good shot and the colors came out very nicely. I don't know if you
played around with the jpg file, but I downloaded the largest
version, and using Irfanview (a very nice, free, small, picture
viewer/editor) boosted the gamma, which made several nearly
invisible objects appear. One being the wires or supports behind
the lights. I was also able to now clearly see "Christmas Eve"
below the lights. A bit harder to see may be a street address just
above this, which appears to be "5828".

. . .

I tried what you did, and got the same results. Even without affecting
the gamma, though, I spied a white dot, within the top-left quarter of
the picture. (You'll need to "zoom in" slightly, to see it.)

Presumably, it's a bad pixel, in the original poster's ("Dolu") Kodak
CD33's image sensor. My own P850 (also a Kodak) is plagued by this
very defect, sad to say.

Yours may be a bad pixel, but Dolu's CD33 is immaculate. Based on
its position in the sky, that dot actually appears where the star of
Bethlehem was expected to be at 11:00pm on the 15th, eh what? I got
this celestial info. straight from Kenny R. hisself.