| So you recently bought a digital camera or perhaps | | | | your camera have? A pixel is a light sensing cell on |
| your thinking about it. And perhaps you may be | | | | the image pickup device.The higher number of pixels, |
| wondering how many pictures will your computer | | | | the higher the resolution or picture quality of the |
| hold? First you need to answer a few questions to | | | | camera. A higher pixel number will also require more |
| come to an accurate conclusion. First, how big is your | | | | storage space in your camera and computer for a |
| hard drive and how much free space does it | | | | picture. How much storage does each picture need? |
| currently have? You can find the answer to that | | | | If you have a 2M pixel camera, a high resolution |
| question by first left-clicking on "My Computer:" | | | | picture will require storage in the range of 500kb. |
| Right-click on "C drive." A menu should appear. | | | | Two 500 kb pictures would occupy 1 MB. If that one |
| Left-click on "Properties." A pie chart should be | | | | picture requires 500kB of storage, you should be able |
| displayed that will show you the size of the hard | | | | to store 2000 pictures of that size in 1 gigabyte of |
| drive and how much of the disk drive is free. Your | | | | disk space. |
| next step is too know how many mega pixels does | | | | |