Fit a Lot More Shots on Your Memory Card

I mentioned back in volume 1 of this book series that, to have enough resolution to print a 16×20" print, you only needed an 8-megapixel camera. Of course, most folks will never print anything larger than an 8×10, so you could make the case that, for most photographers, 8 megapixels is actually overkill. That being said, what if you don’t make prints at all? Today, most people’s images wind up on the web, and if that’s the case (and you shoot in JPEG mode), you might consider lowering the megapixels your camera shoots. Not the quality, just the size of the images. That way, you fit more images on your memory cards, you take up less space on your hard drive with your photos, and even Photoshop will run faster, because you’re working with sm....