Digital Cameras – Everyone’s a Pro

Think how much easier and more fun it is to take pictures – and good pictures – to remember you trip, now that you can use a digital camera.

The joys of digital cameras begin with the packing – no more bulky rolls of film to carry. No more wondering how many you’ll need, or trying to find the right kind in a remote town.

Each day it means tucking a spare card into a pocket, instead of lumpy film. Changing cards is faster and needed less often than changing film. And they can be used over and over, unlike film, so I’m not spending money with every click of the shutter.

But to me the most important advantage of digital is that I can check immediately to see if the picture is good. Did that man who stepped in front of me get in the way? A few fast clicks and I can see that he did, delete the shot and take it again without the back of his head in it.

I can also fix minor mistakes later – under-exposed? I can lighten it so all the details I saw show in the picture.

But best of all, I can make prints immediately and I can email my family shots taken that day, so they can “travel” with me. I can store them safely, make CDs of them, print them in any size and layout – even label them and make them into scrapbook pages.

Without having to worry about all the technical details of using a conventional camera, we can all concentrate on having fun and recording that fun in pictures.