O.K.  I know hardly anything about cameras.  I want to buy a digital
camera with at least 5px. and good zooming.  And pay 2-300.00 dollars.
I want to take pic inside, outside, anywhere, anytime.  I'm so excited.
So you can imagine how many pic. I'll be taking.  So, I guess battery

What's happened to cameras ?
Camera design's been taken over by computer geeks.
It's like they've forgotten the refinements in 75 years
of camera development.

On my Win ME computer I was very happy with MGI Photosuite 4
I recently got Win XP w/SP2.
I would normally want to install MGI on it,
but read that SP2 on WIn XP might cause problems.

Do any consumer digital cameras come with remote control software
which can "watch" the image area and take a picture when an object
enters or moves in a selected area? Or, might there be software from
other sources that can do this for some camera models?

Anyone else getting incredibly poor connections to PBase of late?
Seems like it's taking minutes to open galleries, make changes, upload,
delete, etc.  My style sheets were all jacked up today, too...fixed
itself, but it seems like things are a mess over there right now.

Is there a rule of thumb when it comes to determining the optimal
viewing distance for a particular dpi?

The latest issue of digtal camera buyer carries a review of the OLYMPUS
SP320.
They state that it has image stabilisation.
It does but only on video.

Ok im sure this will have been covered but what i need to find out and
i have done a good look through the group with out finding the answer
but what i need to do is...
Convert .RAF files taken on a fuji film fine pix camera to .RAW files

What's the difference between using a gray card with film and using
white balance with digital?  Why not use a gray card with digital?
Forgive me if I sound stupid but it's still a mystery to me.  Thanks
for your reply.

Anyone have a manual for a Tamron Adaptall II 2x SP BBAR MC
Teleconverter?  Model 01F.
If you have a spare, or can scan it, I'd appreciate having a manual for
this adapter.  Called Tamron yesterday, and they don't have them

I use iView3 and my only catalogue is 1.7Gb and the images total 7.5GB.  Why
is the catalogue so large?
Beemer

A friend of mine who shoots wedding photos asked me this questions and
not being a pro myself I gave the standard common methods like backing
up in external hard disk enclosures, and burning multiple copies on DVD
disks, but I am not sure if this is what pros do.

Below are some links to an image I took on holiday
I was crouched down taking some dodgy clichéd pics of driftwood when I
realised I was about to get run over by something tearing down the beach!
Had about 3 or 4 seconds to take the shot so I'm pretty chuffed that I

Any preferences for what brand to choose for DVD+R discs ..?
 -Bulkpaq
 -CMC
 -Intenso

Looking for a bit of basic advice re. polarisers, I have one and I do know
how they work and the kind of effect it has on my pictures.
My question is using a polariser somewhere very bright and sunny like the
carribean - I've heard conflicting advice, where some people swear by