doing your own digital pictures,what is needed?

[geegee]

My Dh and I areinterested in taking and printing our own pictures at home.Could someone please share about what equitment is needed?Am I right in thinking a digital camera{what is the best kind?] a photo printer{could anyone recommend a good one?}and maybe some software.Im hoping to get a setup for my b-day. :mrgreen

[2sunshines]

Definitely a digital camera is the first step.

I haven't looked into it lately, but when I did (a year or two ago) it wasn't worth it financially to get the equipment to print off pictures from home. They are so cheap to get printed off professionally, either at a photo development like Walmart or even cheaper through many places online. I'd actually end up paying more to print them at home.

But if you want to go ahead with printing off at home, you will need a photo printer and photo paper.

You wouldn't necessarily need any software to print the pictures off, but if you want to edit the pictures at all first, you'd need software to do that.

[Mother of Sons]

What kinds of pictures do you mean? Snapshots? Portraits?

[geegee]

I would like to do both.I just dont know anything about it.could you tell me something about it?how about getting prints online.Could you send links for this?

[2sunshines]

http://www.winkflash.com/

https://www.walmart.com/photo-center

http://www.snapfish.com/

These are just a few places that you can order your prints from online. There are tons of them though.

[Mother of Sons]

Do you have a camera now?

ritz also does really good pictures. www.ritzpix.com

[geegee]

I dont have my camera yet.What kind do you recommend?

[akmyilee]

I don't have a good camera but my friends told me about Picasa, http://picasa.google.com/ it is a program that you download, for free, I might add, that is AWESOME, you can nearly everything with it, and it is SUPER easy to use. Then I send the pictures to Walmart to get printed, they do a pretty good job. My friend's who have professional quality camera's get great prints.

[Mother of Sons]

What is your budget? The nikon d50 could work nicely for you, it's just under 700 dollars and comes with one lens. Or the D70 with 2 lenses is about 1250.00

[canadiyank]

We have a Kodak Easy Share Z730. The link below is really helpful for finding what you need and in your price range. After you find the one you want, go to www.froogle.com and type in, say, "kodak Z730" and see what pops up. We got ours with a case and some other accessories, for just over $200. It's worked perfectly for our needs, and we print them off at home with photo paper and epson printer. It's worked fine for us, but we don't print that many off, just send them to family/friends and stuff online. My friend takes her card into a local photoshop and they print them off very reasonably there and you can mess with them at the place, borders, cropping, etc. I just use iPhoto software that came with my computer.

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=19&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=1866

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/index.jsp?ref=haa

HTH!

[ShangriLewis]

For a inexpensive..well sort of...point and shoot I like our Sony and so has everyone else I have met! You can get them refurbished at the sony site for a really great price.

I order our pics online, too. I choose Fred Meyer if I'm going to pick them up anyway. I've used Snapfish, too. They have fun greetings and decorative borders that are great for gifts. We do pics for gifts a lot now. We know they don't take up much room and people appreciate them.