The problem with digital camera technology...

[1rockinmamato2]

is that I can fill up two 1 GB memory cards before having to get my pictures developed and then have to take out a second mortgage on the house in order to pay for them.

Who knew one memory card could hold 300 pictures?

 

[The_Horned_King]

consider yourself lucky... If I drop my resolution to half I can put about 1,000 on my memory card!

 

[buckylarue]

Yup, that's why you burn 'em onto a DVD and only print the ones you really need a hard copy of! I'm in even more trouble; not only does my camera hold a ton of pics and videos on its card, but my new cell phone takes pics and video too!

 

[dementia412]

I just keep going through them deleting the crummy ones. I bought one in August and have about 60 pics on.. still haven't developed any of them. I figure we'll develope right before Disney in November... by then I should be up to at least a hundred which might make it worth it. I thought I took alot more pictures untill I got this thing.... the problem I have with them is 1. the wait time between taking pictures, and 2. the inability for it to take pics of moving objects... I thought this was suppossed to be better than the old cameras

 

[Cindy B]

Remember you don't need to print every one either. We keep all of our pictures cataloged on our computer.

 

[Lachesis00]

make sure you back them up!! Our hard drive went out and THANKFULLY we had backed everything up a week before hand. I would have been ticked to loose 2 years worth of digi photos!!

 

[rotlex]

Remember you don't need to print every one either. We keep all of our pictures cataloged on our computer.

I thought this was what everyone did until I spoke with my own in laws! They asked me the other week, after they took a long road trip out west, how I afford to "develop" the thousands of pics I take with my DSLR. I was like, "develop"? They said, yeah, you know, take them to the local Walgreens and have them printed! They seemed to have a hard time understanding I may only "print" 10 out of 100 shots. (I also prefer to do this at home as I prefer to have full control over the process).

Next question from them is then how I can delete all those memories. Again, they didn't get the concept of "digital photography"! Frustrating - although when I attempted to explain the computer aspect of digital photography, cataloging, photoshop, backup etc. they only looked more confused.

 

[rotlex]

make sure you back them up!! Our hard drive went out and THANKFULLY we had backed everything up a week before hand. I would have been ticked to loose 2 years worth of digi photos!!

I just lost my main drive two weeks ago. (Had nearly 5 years, and 120GB worth of photography work on it).

Luckily, I'm an obsessive compulsive regarding backup, and have 3 external drives for backup redundancy. Yes, I even keep one of them off site at my mother's place and bring it home every 30 days to run an incremental on it.

 

[JohnsPrincess]

Lol - my card, at about Mid quality, can hold around 4,000 pictures. And I can surely fill it up...
I also have all my pictures on my computer, on Shutterfly, and when I get enough new ones on the computer, they also go on a DVD.

 

[Lachesis00]

Oh I would have died!!! Glad you backed up!! Mine are on two OLD OLD (only plugged in to back up photos LOL) computers and 2 new computers plus an external drive.

I just lost my main drive two weeks ago. (Had nearly 5 years, and 120GB worth of photography work on it).

Luckily, I'm an obsessive compulsive regarding backup, and have 3 external drives for backup redundancy. Yes, I even keep one of them off site at my mother's place and bring it home every 30 days to run an incremental on it.

 

[Crazoo]

Get a bigger memory card... I bought a 2GB one for $20 few months ago.. that was the regular price too, not on sale or anything

 

[Crazoo]

You should also lower your resolution.... 1gb = 300 pics means each pic is 3.3mb.. way too big.

Set it to 1600x1200 and each pic will be 1mb... then you'll be able to store around 1,000 pics on the 1gb card.

 

[1rockinmamato2]

Wow! 1,000 pictures on a memory card? That's insane. LOL!

I remember the days when a 36 exposure roll of film was a lot of pictures.

If I changed the resolution, would that change the quality of my pictures when they are developed?

I'm a photo album kind of gal, so all my pictures are backed up digitally (external hard drive and DVD) and developed to put into albums.

 

[Crazoo]

If I changed the resolution, would that change the quality of my pictures when they are developed?

I'm a photo album kind of gal, so all my pictures are backed up digitally (external hard drive and DVD) and developed to put into albums.

No... unless you're making really big ones, but generally 1600x1200 (1,000 on 1gb card) is good for up to 8x10 prints