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Technology| Digital Cameras, Scanners, and Image Editing
Software When digital cameras first hit the market, they were
expensive and not in most researchers’ budgets. As they have
grown in popularity, and as the technology has matured, they
have come down drastically in price. Family historians use them
as tools for photographing fragile documents, cemeteries and
tombstones, pictures that can’t be removed from frames, and even
microfilm images. While cameras are no stranger to the
genealogist, digital cameras have a distinct advantage in that
you can immediately view the photograph you’ve j