Most digital cameras record pictures on removable memory cards, which are similar to the floppy disks that you may use with your computer. When you fill up the card with pictures, you have to delete some pictures or transfer them to your computer before you can continue shooting.
Memory cards used to be terribly expensive. In the first years of digital photography, you could spend as much as $20 per megabyte (MB) of memory. Thankfully, memory card prices have plummeted recently, and you now can buy a 2GB memory card for about $15.
How many pictures you can fit into that 2GB depends on camera resolution and image file format, two subjects that you can explore in the next two chapters.
Regardless, you can strike the cost of memory cards from your list of concerns. You won't spend any more than you would on film and processing to produce an equivalent number of traditional prints. And you can reuse memory cards as many times as you want, making them an even bigger bargain when compared to film.
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