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What image size should my digital camera be set on?
Digital cameras usually allow us to pick which size images we would like... (small, medium or large). Look in your camera settings.Always shoot on LARGE. If you always use large, you'll be able to enlarge the photos up to 8x10s. If you use the small setting, probably a 4x6" is as good as you'll get .
What size memory card (Compact Flash or CF card) should you buy?

If you set your digital camera images to LARGE, it takes a larger card to store a decent amount of images. I would recommend a 1G card. That's a one gigabyte card. That should allow you to record nearly 300 pictures.

A 512MB card will store about 150 images.