Other uses for your digital camera while traveling
This site has some excellent ideas on 12 things you can do with your digital camera aside from the obvious use of taking vacation photos. It’s actually pretty darn clever. One of my favorites?
With a digital camera, you can take a picture of your hotel and the nearest street sign, as well as any nearby landmarks, and then show those pictures to your taxi driver or to anyone from whom you might need to get directions. For English-speakers this is especially helpful in Asia, India, and any country where the language may be difficult to pronounce and read. It’s also a heck of a lot easier than asking your hotel clerk to repeat the hotel name fifteen times while you struggle to convert a twenty-two syllable word with no consonants into something legible on a folded sheet of paper.
Check out all 12 – have you ever used any of them? Will you consider some of them for your next trip?
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I’m a regular reader of Vagabondish, and i especially liked this article. I thought that their creative uses (such as passport and document backup) were great, although my measley 2.1MP camera from 2001 wouldn’t get the job done. *sigh* I guess I’ll just have to get a new DSLR!!! That sounds like a good excuse. Because THEN I can use it to back up my documents… hehehe I’ll try and sell it to the keeper of the money, the hubby.