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I am hoping that someone here can help me.

My wife and I are completely new to digital photography and while in New
York recently, to run in the marathon, we were tempted to buy the Sony DSC
P32 digital camera. Now that we are home, we are looking at it and wondering
just what we have bought. It has a 16mb memory stick but I cannot understand
how many pictures that allows us to store on the camera. There is a table in
the accompanying booklet which states the number of images that can be saved
in the memory stick.It quotes for "fine" and "standard" images and also
quotes for various image sizes(3.1m,2.8m,2.0m,1.2m and something called VGA
whatever that is). What does all this mean? I basically want to take a load
of pictures (say, 100 or so), on holidays etc, and decide which ones I want
to keep when I get home. Do I need to get a larger memory stick?

Any assistance would be appreciated. Perhaps there is a website somewhere
that can be of help. I didn't realise all this digital stuff was so complex!

Thanks

David Hyams

Welcome to the (sometimes confusing) world of digital photography. In most
simple terms, your camera allows you to chose from several different
"resolutions" to suite your needs. Higher resolution will generally produce
better pics for printing. A 16mb memory stick will get you started, but if
you shoot at highest resolution and each pic is 3.1 mb, you can't get many
on a 16 mb stick. Most likely you will want to get a higher capacity stick.
Good news is that the 128 and 256 mb sticks have come down in price quite a
bit (I recently bought several 128 mb sticks for 39.95 each). Best place to
start your research is here:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/spec...ony_dscp32.asp

and here:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/read...ey=sony_dscp32

and also in the Sony forums here:

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1009

Good luck, have patience and don't be discouraged.



"David_Hyams" <> wrote in message
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> I am hoping that someone here can help me.
>
> My wife and I are completely new to digital photography and while in New
> York recently, to run in the marathon, we were tempted to buy the Sony DSC
> P32 digital camera. Now that we are home, we are looking at it and
wondering
> just what we have bought. It has a 16mb memory stick but I cannot
understand
> how many pictures that allows us to store on the camera. There is a table
in
> the accompanying booklet which states the number of images that can be
saved
> in the memory stick.It quotes for "fine" and "standard" images and also
> quotes for various image sizes(3.1m,2.8m,2.0m,1.2m and something called
VGA
> whatever that is). What does all this mean? I basically want to take a
load
> of pictures (say, 100 or so), on holidays etc, and decide which ones I
want
> to keep when I get home. Do I need to get a larger memory stick?
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated. Perhaps there is a website somewhere
> that can be of help. I didn't realise all this digital stuff was so
complex!
>
> Thanks
>
> David Hyams1
>
>
>