Hey, it's not that bad - at least at my eye.
a) make a copy, just in case
b) try some noise removal tools - probably the picture will get a bit softer, but much less noisy - only have tried Neat Image - there's a free version (they call it Demo, but it's fully functional) - you can compare versions there. Give it a try.

There are other tools - maybe someone else can give a better advice.

And as far as I know, the noise is much less visible on a printout

Good luck, I hope you'll be happy with the results.

I also use Av almost all the time, it's really useful, however sometimes I prefer M - so to ensure my settings won't be changed unexpectedly (ie taking a night photo of people around a camp fire, where the fire is at the centre).

With manual focusing - I gave up totally, just configured AF button for autofocus, switched half-press shutter AF. I just love quick shift Oh, unless I use some older lens...

Didn't I tell you that 9600bps modems era is over?

There's another point of view - the technology helps steeper and more efficient learning if the user is willing to learn and analyses results instead just click-click-clicking all the time.

When I had my first simple film camera, or even a bit later - Zenit 12XP (fantastic by all means) - couldn't afford taking and then developing lots of photos. So it was often a film a month or two. Then it was difficult to remember the settings and conditions. And I didn't experiment that much. Now I have instant results - I see what I'm doing, I can take a number of pictures with different settings and see what's happening - all virtually money free.

The usual thing - it's all about humans, not the technology, I think.

Maybe it should be a bit warmer and saturated, so greens are more green and reds are more vivid too? I like the crop though.

It's not bad for a hand-held at all

I use Firefox with FxIF add-on installed. When I want to see EXIF data I right-click on a picture and select Properties - EXIF data appear below standard properties.

I installed the newest Picasa, version 3.5. I must admit I'm impressed. I liked Picasa 3, but the newly added features brings it closer to what I want and need.

The face recognition works quite nicely (they had it online already, but now it's on PC), tagging and geotagging - good!

Negatives / wishes:
- no Linux version (oh well, there are ways to install / use, the previous 'Linux' version used wine anyway, so I made it working in Linux as well)
- cannot read Unicode EXIF comments properly (garbage instead international characters)
- no hierarchical tags
- no picture versioning (ie the way to show that I have the same picture in few crops / different P&P, but shared description, tags, etc)
- no multilingual / different sets of titles (ie I want to share the same picture in different albums for different audiences - I need different titles for them)

But I have to say - it is really good product, and very helpful - makes pictures organising much easier.

PS. No, I do not work for google, I just like it

Maybe not that far into the future - this year, Fri 23 Oct - Sun 1 Nov, Brodsworth:
'The Enchanted Garden' - light show.

Belton House is very nice place to visit (especially with children).

I expected these berries aren't very healthful, so I only took some pictures