The first episode, on digital cameras, opened with David Pogue speaking with a British accent and explaining how quickly the digital camera has overtaken film cameras. And you smile as he explains how digital cameras become obsolete in warp speed; the camera you buy today becomes obsolete by the time you leave the store. "Just buy one. Now." he recommends.

In this episode he shows you how to buy a camera, how to take good pictures, and how to share them with the world.

He dispels the megapixel myth: More megapixels do not a better picture make. Cameras higher than 5-megapixels are only important for giving the point-and-shoot cameras more opportunities for manipulating photos, like cropping part of a full picture and blowing it up to larger size. He disproves the myth with a test. Using three enlargements of the same subject, all the same size, same developing lab, same photographer, and three different size megapixel-rated cameras — 5-, 8-, and 13-megapixels. He asks people to differentiate among the three. No one could, even though there was a $1500 cost difference among the cameras. Only one person was able to guess correctly, but that was just a lucky guess...David Pogue maintains there is no difference

So for the average person who wants to print an 8" x 10" picture with some cropping, enhancing, and painting, a 4- to 5-megapixel camera is enough. The moral of the story: Save your money and never buy according to just the megapixels as your only criterion.

The next sections deal with amateur photographers' mistakes. Pogue gives helpful hints for taking better pictures and avoiding pitfalls.

Lastly he takes you to the digital dark room — or is it the digital light room? Mac users use iPhoto, which is free with every new Mac, to organize, edit, and share their photos. Windows users can use Picasa (free from Google).