An entry level camera that captured my heart...

Ben Herrmann wrote:

Care to clarify what you meant by "...spent so much time processing these snapshots?" Has a very condescending, sarcastic tone to that.

Perhaps he was commenting not on what you get to see which may be wonderful, full resolution photos but what we get to see, which you described this way :

Images were then converted for web usage using Irfanview (my preferred file converter) at a 95% quality level, resized to 1200 x 803 (so it's manageable). Please note that the EXIF information has been stripped because when you convert from TIF to JPG using Irfanview, it does that (I've corresponded with the programmer about this).

and 1200 x 803 is only a 1mp photo, only half the resolution of my old laptop's screen. So yes, it's akin to a snapshot. Not in the subject matter or the compositions, but none of the photos really show off what the X-A1 is capable of producing, which appears to be what you intended this thread to be about. After all, you didn't title it "How New Bern captured my heart...", you titled it "An entry level camera that captured my heart..."

I know quite well what the X-A1 can do because like you I'm very fond of it, enough so that two days ago I bought a second X-A1. Uploading full resolution photos is just as easy as 1mp photos, it just takes longer. What's unmanageable about that? When we view your photos, DPR displays them in lower resolution anyway, and we only get to see the higher resolution versions if we trouble ourselves to use the "original size" links. Using the "original size" link to see 1mp photos only presents what you've already described as limited resolution photos ("converted for web usage") which is pretty much one definition of "snapshots".