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Digital photography is gaining in popularity every day as digital cameras with higher resolutions and more features become available, and for less money.
A digital camera is perfect for a family that has the ability to publish photos on the Internet. You can share the photos of your vacation with your friends and relatives across the world.
King Kamehameha Statue - Honolulu
Digital Photo by John Fischer
You can also buy printers now which will make great prints of your digital photos. Even if you don't have a printer, there are now services on the net where, for a reasonable per-photo price, you can upload your digital images and have prints made and mailed to you.
I own a Sony FD91 Digital Mavica camera. I like the Mavica cameras for my work. Images are stored on standard 3.5 inch floppy disks which are easily read in any computer. With a photo program such as Paint Shop Pro you can crop your photos and even correct your own mistakes. You can brighten dark images, remove unwanted objects and make the photo perfect.
Great Buddha - Lahaina Jodo Mission - Maui
Digital Photo by John Fischer
The main thing to remember when using a digital camera, especially when you may be driving around one of the islands for a full day, is that they run on battery power and the images are stored on some type of media. Be sure that you carry extra charged batteries as well as extra storage media.
For folks who want to share their photos immediately, a digital camera is perfect. When I go to Hawaii, I run a travelogue on this site which is updated every day with new photos. This is not something that you could do with a standard 35 mm camera. Not only would it be very expensive to have 35 mm photos developed each day, but you would also need a scanner to convert the photos to digital form.
Video cameras remain very popular. My observation, however, is that they may have seen their heyday. While they remain great for capturing your family on tape and such things as hula shows at luaus, waterfalls or the surf crashing on the beach, the problem with video cameras is that too often people tend to see their entire vacation through the eyepiece of their video camera. I know, because that has happened to me.
If you do take your video camera to Hawaii, and I certainly do not want to discourage you, be sure to take time to see the beauty of Hawaii with your own eyes as well.
Use your video camera when there is something to shoot that makes sense for video. Don't use your vido camera to take long shots of motionless objects.
Another thing to keep in mind is that 35 mm photos still remain a much easier way to share your travel memories with friends and family. They are ultimately transportable and do not require a TV and a long time to view a tape. In the age of the Internet, digital photos have become easily accessible to others.
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