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I, for one, am a little tired of hearing about the economy. It isn’t that I don’t care, I just never hear what I am supposed to do about it (other than not panic). All I know is, I am tightening my belt for leaner times, and part of that means fewer gadgets and toys.

Maybe you are like me and you have a camera that is a couple of years old, has some scratches and dents and is no longer the best/smallest/coolest camera available. I remember when I bought my Casio EX-Z600, it had the largest LCD screen available. It was so sleek and tiny, I didn’t bother to read the owner’s manual, I just dove right in.

And now, a few years later, rather than buying a new camera, I am breaking out my owner’s manual to see what features I may have been over looking. Luckily, I save everything, so I still have a hard copy handy. But, if you threw yours out along with the packaging I recommend checking out Digicamhelp. They have a large collection of owner’s manuals from a variety of vendors.

You can learn all sorts of cool stuff about what your camera can do. For example, I didn’t know that my camera could adjust its flash from one flash to two based on the lighting. I also realized that the hole in the bottom of my camera is for a tripod – I might have figured out that one on my own - but I never gave it that much thought. I also found out I had a white balance indicator, an anti-shake indicator, and a continuous shutter mode. Now I know I can take a series of photos in rapid succession! Now that I know how to take better photos I can use some cool photo editing software to really take them up a notch (learn about free photos editing sofware in my previous post) .

Once you feel you have photos worthy of sharing you can use Memeo Share to send them directly to your friends and family, bypassing email and avoiding the hassle of posting them on a website.

If you have already bought a new camera and have an old one just floating around the house I highly recommend reading Make Something New with Your Old Digital Camera. The article makes a few very creative suggestions on what to do with that extra piece of hardware, such as turning it in to a webcam.