| How many photo albums do you have at home, and | | | | way of taking pictures. But these die hard folk are |
| how much time do you spend tediously going through | | | | rapidly disappearing in the wake of two things: |
| those albums, cutting and pasting, and wishing there | | | | convenience and instant gratification. With the old way |
| was a better way to store and preserve your | | | | of taking photos, you have to wait for the pictures to |
| pictures? Well, there is a better to obtain and store the | | | | be developed before deciding if what you've taken is |
| memories that you want to keep for a lifetime, and the | | | | good enough to keep. Plus, you have wasted film, and |
| answer is the digital camera.Going digital allows you to | | | | spent money on something that you may not even |
| take a large number of high quality pictures and then | | | | want in your photo album.With digital cameras, there is |
| store them, edit them and categorize them on your | | | | no film to worry about developing or wasting. The |
| hard drive. Sound complicated? Well it really isn't. | | | | cheapest and most basic of digital cameras on the |
| Today, digital cameras are affordable, easy to use, | | | | market allow you to view your digital photos |
| and your pictures come out just as well as if they | | | | immediately after you have taken them, and then you |
| were taken with an old analog camera. Plus there are | | | | can decide whether to delete the photos or keep |
| specialized software programs that allow you to | | | | them.Another awesome advantage for digital cameras |
| create photo albums on your computer. You can save | | | | is transferring your photos from one place to another. |
| these photo albums on any number of storage | | | | Connect your digital camera to your laptop or desktop, |
| devices; your hard drive, a memory stick, or a CD. The | | | | and if you have access to the Internet, email, instant |
| point is that you no longer have to lug around huge | | | | messaging, or whatever, then you have the ability to |
| bulky photo albums with all your pictures.Now hold on a | | | | send your photos instantaneously to any place in the |
| second! I know what you are thinking. What if you | | | | world. This is a great feature for journalists, who can |
| want to actually hold the picture in your hand? Well, | | | | snap photos and send them to their newspaper for |
| that's great because the technology for printing out | | | | instant editing and inclusion in the top stories of the |
| high quality digital photos just keeps getting cheaper | | | | day.Or, imagine that your kids, pets, or neighbors have |
| and cheaper. Color printers that connect directly to | | | | just done something hilariously funny, and you have the |
| your digital camera can now be purchased for less | | | | event captured on your digital camera. Send the event |
| than two hundred dollars! And the quality of the digital | | | | instantly to all your other friends and family.Gregg Hall |
| cameras themselves gets better every year.Now I | | | | is an author living in Navarre Florida. |
| know that there are still some die hard fans of the old | | | | |