Whether you’re producing snapshots for your family or professional shots for clients, or even pictures for yourself, connections, both Internet and interpersonal, pervade every aspect of picture taking, production, and creation. Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz welcomes you to the new magazine.

No discussion of digital cameras (or any camera) can really be complete without talking about cropping. In this helpful article, David Gewirtz shows you how to plan for cropping in your digital camera purchase.

In this issue, we’re going to look at some important concepts of image compression that you’ll need to know in order to understand how to capture and save images at the best quality.

This week, we’re going to finish up our discussion of megapixels and your first digital camera with a short discussion of those little memory cards upon which you store your images.

It became clear that there was a need for a comprehensive course in what, exactly, a digital camera is, what it can and can’t do, and guidance in how to purchase the right one. Rather than providing a set of reviews for cameras that change each week, we decided to create a program to help you truly understand digital cameras, how they work, the tradeoffs involved in any purchase, and how to get the most productivity and enjoyment out of them. Learn about our new audio workshop in this article.

When choosing a digital camera, most people start by thinking about the number of megapixels they’ll need. But what are megapixels and how does that measure determine what camera you should choose? Read this article to find out.

This article first appeared in Computing Unplugged and kicked off a firestorm of interest in digital cameras. After talking with readers and getting hundreds of letters, we decided to move up our schedule for Connected Photographer Magazine and launch now. This article started it all.