Photos, Imaging

Digital cameras have been on the market for several years and have come a long way in features and quality, but the one drawback still remains – the slight delay when you take the picture. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but even a half second is far too long to capture the perfect facial expression or snap a shot of your child scoring the winning goal.

Digital SLR cameras eliminate this delay completely, and also provide an auto-shoot feature that lets you snap a few shots each second.

I highly recommend the Nikon D50 DSLR camera, which I have owned for about a year. It’s available at Buy.com for about $500 (and here’s a coupon link to save $15 on any camera purchase at Buy.com).

I also bought a SanDisk Ultra II SD 2GB Card that holds about 1100 pictures, and took the D50 to Disneyland with my family last year. We took hundreds of priceless shots with this camera, and never had to worry about timing the shot to account for a delay – because there is absolutely no delay. The D50 instantly captured the shot every time.

Yes, I think Digital SLR cameras are very much worth the extra cost! 🙂

Question: Have you any info on formatting the memory chip for a camera after deleting all the photos? I tried to make an 8×10 enlargement of our family photo.

Do you have any input on this? The photo is great but if you look close, it definitely could use better resolution.

Answer: This question has been heroically rescued from the Open Questions forum by Greg Woosley. You can view his reply below, and stop by his website at http://codenoter.blogspot.com/ for some useful tips on “tricky geek things he’s figured out once and doesn’t want to figure out again later”.