Digital Camera Tips

In the good old days, when we took a picture it was stored on a 35mm film and had to be developed professionally by a photo lab. But now that is all but extinct as the digital camera electronically stores your pictures on your camera or memory card. The picture now being in digital form is now easily transferred to your computer, manipulated and edited, and shared with all of your friends.

Now that this technology is so popular, Digital cameras are getting less expensive by the day and are becoming easier to use. The average lay person can now take a professional looking photo with the simple click of a button.

However, before buying a digital camera it is important that you research your product and get as much information as possible so when it comes to purchasing you will not be baffled by the salespersons' jargon. They will mention words like optical zoom, digital zoom, megapixels, megabytes, interpolated, resolution, and even more complex terms that are possibly even made up. Get yourself armed with knowledge and thoroughly explore the digital camera tips we have below.

Scanner and Camera Wizard Where is it in Windows XP? This is the wizard that appear s when you plug your digital camera in to your computer. It asks you where to store your new photo's that you are extracting from your digital camera.

Choose a program to start Connect your digital camera and start a program automatically (vista). For example, when you connect your digital camera to your computer you can tell it to open another program besides The built in Scanner and camera wizard. You can open with programs like acdsee.

Transfer photo's from your digital camera to your computer. Here are a few different ways to transfer your photos to your computer. Step by step, through the automatic scanner and camera wizard.

Transfer photo's from your computer to your digital camera. Some newer camera's allow you to transfer photo's back to your camera from your computer. If you have an older camera you can try a few other ways.

Recovering Deleted Pictures from My Digital Camera. How annoying is it when you accidentally delete your photo's from your digital camera. You can never get these deleted memories back! OR can you?

Digital Camera Batteries Tips on how to make them last longer! You can read all of my tips on how to save your digital camera batteries. Unfortunately I had to learn the hard way.

Choosing a digital camera What features do you need? What are megapixels and how many do I need? What is optical zoom and digital zoom. Find out the answers..

10 Top Advantages to owning a digital camera over an old SLR 35mm film camera You are probably thinking that this is a bit obvious, but his article is for the SLR 35mm film camera die hards that haven't succumbed to the digital camera revolution.

Delete all pictures automatically delete photos from your digital camera using your computer. You can set the automatic camera wizard to delete the photos from your computer once the pictures have been taken from the camera.

Share Pictures and photos All the ways you can share your photo's with other computers. Now days there are so many choices when it comes to transferring files or photos to other computer, regardless of where it is in the world.

Resize a Photo Using Windows XP. This is a little trick to show you how to resize a photo without having to install a photo editing program.

Save Photos What file format should I save my photos in?

Organize your photos Store your photo collection the right way. If you don't organize your photo collection you will have no idea where a specific photo is when you want to view it.

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