Good advice for people not use to the digial camera. Most of these are leasons quickly learned (batteries die).

Compression/resolution choices are important to consider in any input mode. Weather scanning, capturing, or creating from scratch; what intended use of the image is extreamily important. People ask me what type of scanner or what resolution of camera they should get. My first question is what is their output. Are they going to print these images, email them, or are they going ot a professional printer? Novice users have not really thought about it. Their 6 gig drive seems vast at the beginning.

Something to note is some photoprocessesing labs now have the capability to make prints from your