No, my calendar didn’t stop — I’m just late!!! I’ve been enjoying some out-of-town company and then we were out of town for a weekend family reunion. What fun! And I’m so tired! This Photo Friday post will be short and easy. I’m going to talk about a couple of purchases you may want to make for your camera.
First off, the memory card digital cameras come with holds very few pictures (as I’m sure you know). The first purchase to make (and you’ve probably done it already) is to get an additional memory card so you can take a decent number of photos before running out of space and having to download them.
The second point I wanted to make is you may want to get an extra card beyond that. If you haven’t priced memory cards lately, the prices have come waaaaay down in the past couple of years. I hate being in a bind where I’m looking for pictures that I can delete on the camera so I can take a few more pictures! Now that never happens to me.
The second item you may want to consider is an extra battery for your camera. I have two batteries for my Lumix, and that is really wonderful for vacations and days you are taking a ton of pictures. I don’t have an extra for my Canon, but I consider that camera more of an in-my-purse camera. If you find that a fully recharged battery doesn’t last as long as you’d like, check Amazon or other sites/stores to see what an additional battery would set you back.
(A note about batteries. A quick check on Amazon.com, I found there’s a replacement battery for my Powershot for about $15 that does not say “Canon” on it. For myself, I would spring for the $35 or so battery that does say “Canon” on it. It’s up to you. It may be that a battery is a battery, but I love my cameras, so I’ll get the original.)
While I was writing about the memory cards, it made me wonder if you know that you can take your memory card right out of your camera and take it into a Target, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, etc., and choose which photos to print and then print them yourself on the spot at those little individual monitors they have.
I used to do that a lot. I have a Super Target about a mile from my house, and now I go through the Target site to send my pictures to the store. They send me an e-mail back when they are ready, and I go pick them up. Oh, excuse me. To be totally honest, I usually send DH to pick them up!
You can also send them to a Target (or other store) close to, say, your mom’s house, if you have pictures you want her to have. Then let her know when she can go to that store and pick up the pictures.
–Sue
