Required Accessories

What accessories are required to use my camera or camcorder?

Bare Minimum:

At the very least, in addition to your digital camera or camcorder, you will also need to have batteries (either extended-life alkalines or rechargeable batteries and a charger) and memory cards for storing your pictures. On our primary features page, we offer a comparison between the different types of batteries and information on the types of memory cards.

Using this equipment would allow you to capture images and store them; however, you would have the following limitations.

• In order to view images, you would need to use either a television (if your camera or camcorder has a video output) or the the built-in viewscreen.
• You would not be able to edit images.
• The amount of images that you can save is limited to capacity of your memory cards.
• In order to share images, you would need to give the memory card to a person who has a device which can read the card and display the images (such as TV PixShare).

Minimum Recommended:

By adding a computer and Internet connection, you gain the ability to edit the images, share them over the Internet, store them on CD's or other media and order prints from an on-line photo processor. The computer should meet the following requirements:

• Video card and sufficient memory to install and run camera/camcorder software (specifics depend on the camera or camcorder).
• CD-RW (compact disc read and write) drive to save still pictures and short motion video to CD-R discs.
• Large hard drive, as both images and image-editing software can be quite large.
• Appropriate connection ports (depends on camera or camcorder).

If you do not have access to the Internet or a computer, you could instead add a card-to-television device such as TV PixShare, which allows you to edit and display your images on your television.