digital camera

Well most digital cameras have LCD screens on for checking if your pictures are any good, which is good because you can take a few of everything and then just choose the best one. Mine only has 16mb internam memory so I bought a 64mb sd card and now I can take anywhere from about 60 pictures to 1000 (depending on what quality I select)

What`s the normal size I have to put it on. I can choose 4 different picturessizes,
That`s the only thing I haven`t figurd out cause there is nothing in th manuel about that

Well it depends on how many pictures you want to be able to take vs what quality you want them. In lowest quality you could get lots of pictures, but at low quality, or in high quality you would get high quality pictures but very few of them.

Mine has 4 sizes (640 x 480, 1024 x 768, 1600 x 1200 and 2048 x 1536) and 3 resolutions (Fine, Normal and Economy), so at highest quality and largest size I can take 59 pictures, and at lowest quality and smallest size I can take 970 pictures. I generally go for highest quality and a middle size and get about 100, although I often change it before taking pictures depending on the subject matter.

I usually use the biggest size (better quality) but of course you won't be able to take as many pics as with a smaller size. Also, when I want to email them, I always have to re-size them in order not to block someone's inbox. Hope this helps.

The LCD screen is what I was talking about with the instant gratification.

I always use the highest quality setting on my camera. I get great pictures that way. I tried the lower quality and you can see such an obvious difference. Just buy an extra card or two and you'll be set. I've got two 128 mb cards for mine and it works out great.

I always use the highest quality as well. When you want to make prints of the pictures you'd better get the highest quality to make them look better anyway. I use my camera a lot to make pictures that I'll edit in Photoshop afterwards, so I usually need a high quality anyway. I have a 256MB memory card, so a lot of pictures will fit until it's full. My advise would be to get some spare memory cards as well. They're quite pricy though compared to the camera... that's the only downside of it.

And even if you hate reading manuals, you'll miss out on so much functions if you don't do it with digital camera's! Usually there's a lot more possible than the old film camera's, so it's best to force yourself to read that damn manual :P. You'll enjoy your camera even more!

Today I'm off to buy myself another camera I've got just a simple point & snap camera now and I just really need one with more manual features, rather then just all the automatic functions. So I made a deal with my parents who needed a simple digital camera & could easily take my old one !

Mine has 16mb memory and I bought a 64mb card and that's plenty enough for me. My camera is only 3.1 megapixels so each photo takes up less than 1mb if I leave it on the 2nd highest image size and highest picture quality, and that way I can get about 100 pictures which is plenty. At this size (1600 x 1200) they are good to print at A4 size, which is the size I print them at sometimes.

You're mixing resolution and compression... The "sizes" you're talking about are resolutions. Resolution means how many pixels there is in the picture. The three settings you have (fin etc.) are how hard the camera compresses the image. So your image might have a resolution of 2048x1536 and a compression of "economy" making it pretty useless for print.

As for printing, I disagree with your A4-printing. 3 megapixel camera can take A4-quality pics but only at the higest levels. 1600x1200 is not enough. You can easily count this yourself: to print a decent picture you need 150 pixels (or dots) per inch, thats 150DPI. A4 is 8.26 inches (21cm) wide. To fill that you'd need 1239 pixels per row. And the length of an A4 is 11,69 inches, and you'd need 1753 pixels to fill that. And thats just decent. To get anywhere near printing quality you need about 300 DPI printing resolution, and then you have to double the numbers. So to print good quality A4 size prints you need about 2400 x 3500 pics. The 3 megapixel cameras best resolution (2048x1536) is just about enough, but still a 4 megapixel camera is better if you want A4-size prints.

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No because resolution surely would be counted as dpi, so on mine the fine may be 150dpi, whereas economy may only be 75dpi or something like that. With my printer if I take an image that is even 1024 x 768 and print it A4 it looks good. When I go to print something if it is 1600 x 1200 it is too big for the printer so I have to resize it (thankfully I can do that on the print preview page), so I don't know what resolution my printer can handle (it's new), but 1600 x 1200 is plenty big enough for A4.

the Fine, Neutral etc settings for sure have nothing to do with the resolution or dpi. It only gives the quality level of the image (for example - you can export JPEG files in different quality levels in Photoshop as well). With most camera's you can next to the quality level adjust the resolution as well...
My old camera used to have 3Mpx Fine, 3Mpx Neutral, 2Mpx, 1Mpx and .3Mpx (if my memory serves me correctly). So only in the 3Mpx there was a possibility to adjust the quality level of the image.