Digital Cameras

Whichever way you slice it up, digital cameras have taken over photography. True, there are still lots of the traditional film camera's in use, but the versatility of digital is hard to ignore.

Not only can you take hundreds of photos depending on the size of your image card, you can also manipulate those images much like a professional photographer in a darkroom would do, except you don't need a darkroom, just access to a computer and one of the several programs available for digital photography. These programs allow you to zoom in and out, crop pictures or change them, add text, adjust the colors and the contrast, and much more.In addition, you can save the pictures to your computer or a CD, email them to your friends...post nudies on your website...the list goes on and on....

Digital cameras have come a long way from my first Kodak DC200 Plus which is still a fine digital camera, but it doesn't have a zoom lense and the memory card only holds about a dozen pictures. I think it has gone off the market now, replaced by more versatile digital cameras like this Kodak EasyShare for about a third of what I paid for the old DC200 6 or 7 years ago. Otherwise, the DC200 still takes a pretty good picture and the Kodak picture software is among the easiest to use so I still use ours in some situations, although I have upgraded.

I now use an OLYMPUS Stylus Verve 4.0 megapixel camera that takes pretty good pictures, has a 2X optical zoom lense and can take video although I haven't used that particular feature yet other than to try it. It's a nice compact little camera that I can tuck into my pocket while on vacation or at the kid's school concert. I actually won this camera in a charity draw, and was pleasantly surprised by what I had won. (The grand prize was a $600,000.00 home, complete with a car, but I won a camera....)

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