Just a few tips.
1.	If taking a picture in the dark of a building or something far away, not people, turn off the flash. Sounds stupid but if you leave the flash on you will get nothing, as the flash will cancel out any natural/street lighting. Leaving the flash on and if necessary increasing the light balance will produce a better image. The newer camera will do this for you though.

2.	Again turn off the flash if taking a picture through a window. The flash will always reflect off the window and you´ll just get white. (works well with conventional cameras as well)

3.	Use the macro on the camera for close ups, otherwise the image will blur.

4.	If the image you have taken is slightly dark or too light adjust the light balance. Less for too much light and more for too dark.

5.	Darker images take up less memory than lighter images. Wierd!

6.	If something needs to be zoomed in on to view it, get off your backside and move closer, using a big zoom will increase blur if you dont have a super fast shutter speed. Like in poor light conditions.

7.	Remember if you have a PC, your images can be edited later using software such as Photoshop.

8.	Have fun……

Just a quick note. If you wanting to use your camera to create montages or create digital art then it may be worth investing in some software to do this, such as Adobe Photoshop (http://www.adobe.com) (personally I think 5.5 is better than version 6) or even Paint Shop Pro from JASC (http://www.jasc.com). There are lots of image manipulation tools out there and the more expensive ones will produce better results than the cheaper ones, but good results can still be produced with the cheap ones.

A few people have emailed me asking where is a good place to buy digital camera´s.

Well I can recommend a few but having never bought here, see above, then don´t take my word for it.

This is a link to a page on the Fujifilm site.

http://www.fujifilm.co.uk/fujidc/WHEREBUY/MAIL/MAILFS.html

This has quite a lot of links to choose from most whom have web sites.

My personal recommendation if you require a middle of the range camera is the Dell site.

http://www.dell.co.uk

which has quite a few cameras at decent prices.

Well that s all the advice I can offer on digital cameras at the moment, of you have any further information that you think I might want to read, or if you have any comments or questions then please email me at: info@mykp.co.uk

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