Photography is a mysterious art. Somehow, by pressing all the right buttons and using all the right settings, you can turn an ordinary scene into a work of art. Because photography is so strange, so out of the ordinary, certain photography myths have grown out of our desire to explain what’s going on behind the [...]

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In my regular Ask David column, I answer common questions from my readers. By answering them here, I hope to help everyone else who might have this problem, and not just the person who asked the question. Today, we have a bumper edition covering why you shouldn’t get a film camera; how shots get out [...]

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They’re getting better every year. Camera makers and your local Best Buy salesman are always talking about the next model with more megapixels than the one that came before it. The new numbers make your current model seem obsolete. If you bought a camera with six megapixels a few years ago, you wish you could [...]

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I received this email a few weeks ago from Jennifer E, one of my subscribers: “Hi David, I need to download some of my photos to a CD. My question is, if I resize the photos to a smaller size, so I can get more of them on my CD, then I reinstall them into [...]

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More and more video cameras these days have ‘still image’ capabilities – that is, they can take single images as well as moving video.

And this begs the question – should you purchase a video camera that doubles as a still image camera for when you don’t want to take movies. Or alternatively, should you purchase a still camera that also does movies?

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