the digital camera is a boon to bloggers

i give myself credit for being able to convert my friend victor samuel from a convectional film camera owner to a digital camera owner. victor is a person who seems to be averse to anything and everything that is modern. he does not hold any credit card; he has no atm card and he does carry a mobile phone. he drives a manual car. so to get him to settle for digital photography was quite an achievement.

the digital camera is a boon especially to bloggers like me who like to have pictures to go with the words. i do not think i could have so many pictures if they were not digital images. with digital images, you do away with film processing and pictures taken with a digital camera literally cost nothing. with growing storage capacity, thousands of pictures can be stored in a single memory card or stick.

there is instant feedback as the pictures can be viewed on the lcd screen almost immediately. if you are not satisfied with a shot, you can always do a re-take. pictures that are not to your liking, you can delete them to make space for new pictures.

there is the ease in editing a digital image. you can also email the pictures, put them on a web-site (blog), burn them into cd or dvd and store them in your computer.

best of all, digital photographs never lose their quality.

with all these advantages, my friend victor has definitely got it right this time to embrace modern technology.

the only problem is that young people feel the need to upgrade every few years. when ivy came back in january this year, she upgraded her faulty fuji finepix to a panasonic lumix. when ida came back in july, she upgraded from a canon ixus i to a canon ixus 860 (the one above). as for me, i am still faithful to my canon ixus 700.