How to buy a digital camera

Digital photography keeps getting better. Higher-resolution images, sophisticated but easy-to-use controls, and more. This article helps you sort out the features that matter, and those that don't.

More clever uses for a camera

Here's a follow-up to last week's post about clever uses for a digital camera. Among more suggestions from PC World readers were photographing pre-existing damage to rental cars, photographing public maps in foreign cities, making a record of your luggage on flights, keeping a record of your passport, and recording stages of work when dismantling things for repair, so no pieces get left out when you try to put it back together (I really like that one).

Clever uses for a camera

And you thought a camera was just for taking photos?! Well it is, but those pics can have a lot more uses than just storing in the family album (or more likely these days, on a disk). Dave Johnson shares half a dozen alternative uses, like: insurance inventory, a memory aid, shopping assistance, portable scanner, and so on.
While we're on the topic, here are a couple of other fancy things to do with your camera you may not have thought of. (How about testing whether your TV remote is working?)