Quote Originally Posted by markcoleman
Charles,

Thanks again for your thoughts. I have also had an email from a pro photogrpaher who said the Lexar x80 is very good so will go with that one.

Thanks re. filters, I will hold off on that one.

I have ordered the "Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera" by Bryan Peterson, which was recommended by several people on this site. So hopefully that will start to give me a good grounding.

And a big thanks for the recommendation about photo storage on the ARCHOS GMini 400. Looks great and has a 20GB storage capacity .. so will request that as my next birthday present from the missus! I assume that you can transfer photos from the device directly to the computer if required?.

Thanks again for all your help.
You take the CF card out of the camera and plug it into the GMini, copy all your photos down onto it then put the CF card back in the camera and format it. When you get home you connect the GMini to the computer and it's seen as an extra hard disk called JUKEBOX.

The GMINI has a small colour screen so you can use it to look at your JPG files - or for playing music, DIVX videos etc. It's small enough to put in a trouser pocket or in a camera bag. Plus - it's cute and feels good.

Charles