In this helpful and fun article, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz talks about reader responses to last week’s "Saving your negatives in a digital world" article, makes some recommendations for buying a slide scanner, and recommends some great articles for further reading.

Digital cameras and scanners are amazing equipment, and many of us have moved beyond film. But film cameras still often take better pictures than digital cameras, and film is likely to be with us for quite a while. So what do you do in order to both preserve your images and save space at the same time. In this piece, Connected Photographer Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz gives us his take on how to do both.

You’ve spent hundreds, maybe thousands on your camera gear, but what are you doing to keep that gear safe? In this photography basics article, Senior Editor James Booth covers some of the different styles of camera cases, outlining which opnes he thinks are best for protecting your equipment.

A few weeks ago, we ran a product review that featured the Dell Axim X50v as what we called the ultimate photographer’s PDA. While there was certainly interest in the Axim itself, a surprising number of you were also curious about what we used as backdrops and props for the article’s photos. Apparently, one picture captured quite a lot of attention — but not as a PDA. Instead, readers wanted to know about the backdrop. This article will explain how you can find budget backdrops and put them to use.

We’ve never discussed using a PDA as a laptop replacement for digital photography. Frankly, until recently, we didn’t consider PDAs up to the challenge. But with the release of Dell’s Axim X50v Pocket PC and a piece of software called PhotoViewer, we think the PDA can finally become an indispensable asset for the digital photographer on the road. This article shows you why.

We recently had a chance to look at the new iPod photo, introduced by Apple last year and updated last week in 30GB and 60GB models. As photographers, should you care? In this no-holds-barred review, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz will let you know. It ain’t pretty.

Murphy’s Law affects pretty much every aspect of our lives, and photo shoots seem to invite Murphy to come out and play. With a little foresight and preparation, you’ll get the best images possible from every photo shoot, whether you’re just taking snapshots, or playing the roll of a paid professional photographer. So take a page from the Boy Scout book, along with this advice from Senior Editor James Booth, and "Be prepared!"

By cleaning and testing your camera before each use, you’ll catch problems before they become an issue and ensure your photo shoots go smoothly. In this continuation of our photography basics series, Senior Editor James Booth takes you through the finer points of cleaning your camera.

Over the past month or so, we’ve been talking more and more about creating black and white photographs from color originals. While you can certainly desaturate an image, one of our favorite techniques is to choose among the various color channels and use the best-looking channel as the basis for a black and white image. Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz describes how that’s done in this article.

With photography having moved into the digital realm, photo-sharing sites are popping up all over the Internet. Find out what author John Roling thinks of flickr, one of the newest online photo communities to pop up on the Net.