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The Weather Channel was showing the awful devastation that some people sustained this weekend as a result of the recent tornados in some areas , and I was again reminded that I need to get off my buns and update the photos of my personal belongings for insurance purposes.
Would a disposable camera be good for this kind of thing? I don't want to have to learn the ins and outs of digital photography right now; I just want to click, get a hard copy, and store the photos in my safe. Would a disposable camera be the way to go, and does anyone have a suggestion concerning a particular brand?
I don't see why not, just go to Walgreen or one of those places and get one. Develop it and it's a done deal. Just take couple pictures of the same thing (twice) to make sure they'll come out. Get 400 film and you're set!
A video camera is good, but a small "point and shoot" digital camera can also be used with good results. With such a digital camera you can take close-ups of jewelry, coins, and other small items, as well as regular photos of anything else in the house. Best of all, you can download the pictures to your computer, burn CD's of the pictures and give those to the insurance company, print them straight from the camera if you want, etc. Something else: there are database programs, some which are very cheap, that allow you to enter all your household items' description, serial numbers, condition, cost, etc. I use a Macintosh computer, and use one that cost me $20.00, and I can import the pictures right into the database, in the same page as the data for the item. I am certain that PC users have such available to them, too.
There are lots of point and shoot 4MP digital cameras for around $150.00.
Such angels! Thank you one and all for responding. For this particular situation, I think I'll go with a disposable and get two sets of prints. Again, thank you one and all!!!!!!!!!!
If you take pictures, make sure the date is also printed on the picture or a little trick is place the photos on a newspaper that is showing the date. this will verify how old your pictures were.
One other good tip is use one of those free photo albums online (i use PHOTOBUCKET.com)to store your pictures that way you will have them no matter what happens to the actual prints. along with burning my pictures to a disc, i keep my favorites in my online photo library that way i can access them anytime and anyplace on any computer that's online.
I'm going to have to do some digging, (it was on my old PC, I never transfered it) but there is some software that is made just for this senario. I think it was called "Home Inventory" You can upload pics and match serial numbers and its sorts it by room, price value ect.
I look for it when I have some time, it was nice software. Kinda makes me wish I would have trasfered it over.
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, and I was again reminded that I need to get off my buns and update the photos of my personal belongings for insurance purposes. 
