Managing Your Digital Photos
How do I change my digital camera's file-size settings?
To change the file-size setting, you go into the camera or set-up menu and select the mega pixels. Let's say we have an eight mega pixel camera. That'll be the top and then you'll have a choice of six or four or three or two or one. It's in the menu. You just set it and it's under file size or image quality. You'll select generally the largest. That's where I suggest you leave the camera, always, in terms of file-size setting.
How do I delete a picture from my digital camera's storage card?
To delete a picture that we don't want anymore, you're in the playback menu, that's generally the little arrow that's playback, like play on your VCR. You find the picture that you don't want, and on the back of the camera there's a trashcan button. You press the trashcan button, and that doesn't delete it. It says, do you really want to delete this picture? Then you have to use the toggle switch up and down to get to the yes or ok, and then press the yes button or ok button to delete the picture. So it's generally three steps to delete a picture. They do it like that so you don't do it by accident.
How do I preserve my digital photos?
Most people just download the picture to the computer and then they don't worry about it. However, we all know that it's not when your computer crashes, it's "Is it going to do it today or tomorrow?" If your computer crashes, all the pictures are lost. So, what I recommend that you do is every time that you're satisfied with a set of pictures, you burn them to a long-life CD or DVD. That means none of the rewritables, none of the cheap ones; you have to spend big money. A good CD is about a dollar and a half, and a good DVD is about three dollars, for a gold, high-quality CD or DVD. So, once again, I take my kid's birthday party photos, I take them all, I download them to the computer, I edit them, I throw away all the bad ones until I'm down to the fifty or a hundred that I really want to keep, and those get burned onto a high-quality gold DVD. The best gold CDs and DVDs are by Delkin, they have a three hundred year life. The Promaster gold CDs and DVDs have a fifty year life. Most of the stuff you're going to buy at the office store, the drug store, or wherever, have a two to five year life, and then you're really in big trouble.
