How to get your digital photos off your camera.

Digital cameras in recent years have become more and more popular.Digital cameras are not new, but until recently, traditional film cameras were more popular than digital cameras.Photographers considered the image quality and features of film cameras to be superior to digital cameras.But in recent years, the quality, features, and overall value of digital cameras have caused them to outsell film cameras.When one considers the benefits of digital cameras over film cameras, it's no wonder that digital cameras are now more popular than film cameras.For those who are holding out on getting a digital camera because they are unsure how to get their pictures, when they understand how easy it is to get their pictures from the digital camera, and the different ways that digital photos can be developed, printed, shared, stored and modified compared to film photography, they will wonder why they didn't switch sooner.

One of the main advantages of digital cameras over film cameras is the ease of retrieving pictures from the camera.With a traditional film camera, there was really only two ways you could get your pictures: develop them yourself, or have them developed. If a digital photographer would like to take his photos to the local one hour lab at the local drug store, in the same manner as traditional film photography, and have them developed, he has that choice, and many other choices.

Let's explore the different options a digital photographer has to retrieve his photographs from his camera, and what he can do with them.

Connect the digital camera to a personal computer, upload the pictures, and store them on the computer.Each photograph will be stored on the computer's hard drive as a file.After the file is transferred to the computer, it can then be deleted from the camera to make room on the flash memory chip inside the camera for more pictures.This file can be viewed by software such as a web browser, or a photo editing software.With the photo editing software, the photograph can be easily altered.Imperfections in the image and be edited out, such as red eye.Different versions of the photo can be made from the original.The pictures can be uploaded from the computer to a web site, such as a photo sharing web site, or attached to an email, and sent to friends and family.Photo sharing web sites will be happy to develop the photos you select, and mail them to you, for a small fee, of course.With film photography, you have no choice but to develop all your photos, even those that are no good.A digital photo can go through its whole life without ever being developed or printed.

A digital camera will be sold with everything needed to transfer the picture to the computer.The most common way to connect a digital camera to a computer is by means of USB (Universal Serial Connector) cable, which is the most popular way to connect any device to a computer.Another method for use with cameras with digital video capability is by using a fire wire, which has a higher rate of data transfer.

If you are interested in having your photos developed, you can copy your pictures to a disk, burn them to a compact disk, and take them to the local one hour photo lab.If you want to bypass uploading your photos to a computer, you can purchase a photo printer, and print them yourself.Some cameras have a docking bay.You simply connect your camera to the printer, and follow the instructions of the printer.If you don't want to purchase your own photo printer, you can transfer the photos directly from your camera's flash memory chip to a computer at your local drug store.

Many cellular phones now come equipped with digital cameras.These photos can be sent to somebody else's cell phone or uploaded to a computer.Although these photos are generally lower in quality than a regular digital camera, they can come in handy when a higher resolution camera is not available.

There is really no problem in getting your digital picture files from your camera either to a printed or developed photo, to a digital file, or both.With all the options available to digital photography, it's no wonder that digital photography is now more popular the film photography.