I have got several good tips and advise about digital camera use, some via the list and some direct. More would be welcome. I hope some others beside just me are benefiting from these. Sally, I tried to reply direct to you but it bounced back to me. Something about my host (or your host, or Rootsweb host) being blacklisted by "underscore.com". Jim Giddens Paris (Reno), Tx ----- Original Message ----- From: <Ruthimp@aol.com> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Finally went digital (not genealogy > Sounds like Mike has some sound advice for you, but I read in a photography > magazine that it takes an 8 Pixel Camera to take a photo as good as a 35 MM > Camera. I have personally taken photo's with my first digi camera that had less > than 3 Pixels and worked at them on my computer and made very successful > enlargements of 8 X 10 portraits. That was using the Best for the setting. > Actually, I think mine had stars, the more stars the best picture and less > number of pictures it would take. If you take a photo and try to enlarge it too > much, it will start breaking up into little squares, weird looking and not > printable. Again, remember you can load them onto a disk and print them later or > not at all, just store them. You can even label each photo at the bottom, > this does not have to be printed on the photo, just for later reference. This > is very time consuming. Your camera will have software with it to load onto > your computer that will be very helpful. > Melba > > > > ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message