Digital camera tips

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

I bought a Vivitar 3915 digital camera yesterday at Target for $99. I couldn't pass it up, it was a good deal. I bought it for my trip in Dec. I also bought a 256mb memory card for it from circuitcity.com. I am learning about it so I can be familar with it before the trip, I don't want a repeat of my June trip where I borrowed my mom's camera and accidentally erased all my Disney pics! It can go from 5 megapixels on down. If I were to put it on 3 megapixels would that be good too? Does anyone have this camera? Is it good? Any tips?

Thanks!

 

[AbbysFamily]

In general, how much megapixels you need depends on what you want to do with it.

What is your plans - how do you deal with pictures? If you just print out 4x6 from them (no cropping, don't blow up to 8x10, etc) - then YES 3mp is plenty! (and allows you to get much more onto your card).

If you edit/crop/blow up your pictures, then you might want the extra file 'room' to play with.

However, since this camera has NO optical zoom, only digital - my recommendation is to NOT use the digital zoom and shoot everything at 5mp. That way you can crop down to a 2-3 mp picture later and still get nice looking pictures.

Personally, I spend the little bit more money and get something with at least some optical zoom.

Good luck!