Taking pictures, and preserving memories on paper or on some digital format helps reliving them with family and friends so great. In the last few years there has been such a growth of ways to preserve those pictures.

The camera used to take those pictures can make a world of difference in the mood set in the picture. Sure you have photo editing programs like Photoshop for the creation of a memorial picture. However, if you do not have a good camera that takes half way decent pictures, a masterful program like Photoshop cannot make a masterpieces out of garbage.

Except for a very few almost all cell phones have a built in camera. Only the low end phones in ones only allow to to text or mail those pictures taken. The mid to high end cell phones give you the option to transfer those pictures to your computer via a USB cable.

Take me a picture. Tell me a story with that picture. But before you take that picture tell what kind camera you like to you. Are you a professional photographer that likes to use a single lens reflex camera with exchangeable lenses. Or are you the type of person who just uses the camera on their phone.

I am more into the message of the picture as to how to take it. The camera I use the camera that is attached to my phone. It is 5 mega pixel. However, I would like to some day get a small handheld video camera to take videos and  still pictures.

Before I recommend what type of camera you should get along with the best price, you are going to have to tell me a few things.

• Do you like taking still pictures or video? Since dawn of modern computers it is easy for almost anyone to edit video as easy as still picture. Putting video on YouTube or putting a still picture on Flicker can be done with a good computer and high speed internet connection.