Can anybody please tell me how many pictures I can burn on a CD ?

I have purchased a CD - RW 700 MB - 80 minutes

I am a total beginner.

Thank you

Schweig

It depends on the size of your pictures.

As you say yourself, a CD holds 700MB of data. If you have, say, a 4 or 5 MPixel camera, a typical picture will probably be about 2MB in size, in which case a CD will hold about 700/2 = 350 pictures.

One thing, by the way. I notice you said that you bought CD-RW disks. I would strongly urge you _not_ to use CD-RWs. Although the ability to erase them may seem attractive, they are _much_ more fragile than plain single-use CD-Rs, and are _not_ a good thing to use for long-term data storage.

Use normal CD-R disks. Their cost is trivial, and your pictures will be a _lot_ safer!

Regards,

Chris

Thank you Chris, you always give the best advice.

As I will not store my CD's it will be ok to use the once I have. I will just take the CD to the store and have the pictures printed.

Do you plan to have your pictures printed, and then delete the picture files? You could do that, of course, but it's a good idea to keep the files in case you want additional prints in the future, or you want to look at the pictures on your computer or TV!

Regards,

Chris

I agree with Chris, it is important to keep a back-up of your pictures. Your prints might be destroyed down the road. I think backing up on two CDs is a good idea and then keep the extra CD in a separate place, such as a relative's home.

One point that's perhaps worth making is that, although CD-R disks are a "write once" medium, you don't have to write everything to them in one go. You can write a few pictures to a CD, then come back and write more to that same CD, then more, etc, until the CD is full up.

Regards,

Chris