Couple questions for all those digital camera experts

[Minnie824]

We have a Sony 4.0 cyber shot camera. Works great, and we love it. Just a couple questions/issues I have.
1. For places such as Disney, where I'd want more pictures than what would fit on the memory stick, what are my options? Purchase more memory sticks? I don't really want to bring my computer to Florida with us to upload pictures, is there any other little device I could buy to do that?
2. For pictures in the dark, with no flash, it seems dark, with flash, it seems light. How can I take good pictures in the dark?
3. The flash. It takes like 3 seconds, and trying to take a picture of my kids with the flash is impossible...they're done smiling before the flash. Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[Dan Murphy]

1) More sticks. Check www.buy.com and www.ecost.com

2) Manual settings, only way to go in dark environments

3) Candids

(not an expert, but that is what I do)

 

[Rajah]

You may also be able to get something like an iPod to store pictures on. Otherwise, the only option is more memory sticks.

 

[Razor Roman]

Hey,

My camera is 6 MP so naturally I use a lot of memory too, I only have 512 MB right now (2 256MB Compact Flash chips) and I can hold about 140 pictures on that... and I go through that EASILY on a weekend trip. I am buying another 512 megs of memory.

But, I have also seen a device that basically is a memory card reader with a laptop computer's hard drive built into it. You put in your memory card, it dumps everything to the hard drive, and there you go. It's small, runs on batteries, and the laptop hard drive is cheaper than memory stick (gotta love Sony's proprietary stuff! ) You may want to check around some photography sites and google to see how many companies make these things.