First time with a digital camera

hi suspenseful! well i am not a very techie person myself. so for my second digital camera, which was hiight-tech, i learned to use it in normal mode after about a year until my husband tinkered with it and we learned that there are so many options or settings to choose from. hehehe anyway, the best thing i can tell you is to read the instruction manual and practice with it before an event. you will be fine. :-) take care and God bless you! happy new year@!:-)

I still have a 3.2 MP camera that takes good pictures. Unless you are going to go bigger than 8x10 then a 5MP camera is sufficient. Remember at the time this camera was built it was state of the art. Of course there are improvements like image stabilization and the megapixel count has gone up but do not despair about your camera you can still take good pictures. If your granddaughter will not sit still you might try the sports mode as this is made for moving objects. Some cameras have a children setting on them just for this reason. The best way to learn how to take pictures is practice frequently. The digital camera is great as you can erase the bad pictures right away.

My snapshot type cameras were easy to use. When I first got my Digital Rebel, though, I was overwhelmed by all the features that it had. But, it is very easy to use once you figure out how to use all the buttons.

Well the digital camera we have is actually my sons, but I am going to save up for one..And according to my daughter, I still don't use the camera well, but I don't think I do that bad of a job, she is just too much of a perfectionist..

It'sonly practice, like so many things in life...I have no doubt you will get the hang of it, especially with such special subjects to enthuse you! My wife's arthritis also hampers her photography; but it is mostly a matter of finding the right camera (not to small, because she in=s no longer flexible or dextrous; not too heavy, because her strength is limited and her wrists tire so easily, and with image stabilization).

Reading the manual helps, if you lost it then there are other ways to learn from it like poking with it. My children even know how to use the camera because I let them take a shot for some of my solo pics.lol;-) There was even one time one of my cameras fell. I have to give it to my sister and hse have it fixed. We can also look at the website to be able to study about the camera, that way it will be easier for us to use it. I don't think it's not that difficult to operate a digital camera. And yes your practicing is a way to go.;-)

Yeah that is the bad things about all cameras is getting people to wait while the pictures takes and with digitals they can become impatient. I have a digital one and you have to wait about 15-30 seconds before you can take another one. I had a few groaners at Christmas dinner saying hurry up..

I lve my digital camera, you can take hundreds of pictures and not have to worry about the cost of developing all of them. You can pick and choose which ones you want to print. I have had mine for over a year and I am still learning things.

Oh aren't digital cameras wonderful, I took awhile to get used to the auto focus bit to start off with,, I think they are wonderful things, you will get a lot of enjoyment from it, I hope we get to see some of your shots on here in discussions...have fun with it.

I love our digital camera. If the photo isn't good enough you just take another. Love the fact that you can see the photo ahead of time and decide if you need to take another shot.

One of the best things (and most necessary if you ask me) to have with a digital camera is image stablization which yours may not have if it is ''only'' a 5mp camera. With that it makes picture-taking 1000% easier. With my cell-phone camera I don't even try... it's just not worth it. The only thing I use that for is if I am parking in a parking lot I will take the pictures of the license plates of the cars that are beside me in case my car gets damaged. Good luck to you. Thanks Zelo

I have a digital camera also. I have not learned how to use it yet either. I have only had it a short time and have not had the time to mess with it much yet. It has low picture quality also.

I like digital camera. Ours is not a new or branded one but it works ok for capturing pictures for ebay and for my business website. it can also do video recording only I found that out by mistake and now I forgot which button to push for that hahaha and all that can be transferred to pc files so that's really cool never have cellphone so I don't know if it can work as good

I don't have a digital camera but would like to get one someday. I use to have a cellphone that had a camera made in it but got rid of it cause it was broke.