[Barewolf]

Thanks andy and bender, you both seem to know your stuff on cameras. I am still reading through the manual and have taken a shot of my Birthday cake. I will add 2 pics, you can see they are not too good, i did have zoom on it, its not as crisp as i would like.

I took it on 5 megapixel on medium quality set to landscape mode. probably did everything wrong for that shot didnt i?
All the cameras settings were on auto as well, ISO etc etc.

I have used infraview to shrink my pictures file size with no loss of quality. I set some pics to 1500x1500 dpi. thats still to high then? would 300x300Dpi be enough? for keeping them for e mails and forums etc?

The SD card came this morning and i had camera set to 5mp medium quality and it said i had 1500 shots left lol. I was like OMG!!!! I usually only take a maximum of 50 when i am out. Anyway i changed it to 7.1mp and super fine and i still have 600 to take with that so i am all set now for travels.

My problem is batteries. My god how fast do they burn up? I used up 2 Duracel yesterday and managed about 20 Pics before it had gone, mind you i dont think they were brand new. I have 2 Duracel Ultra in at the moment, brand new, wonder how many i can get out of that, hmm.