CMOS Camera interface Question.

First let me start off by saying I hope I posted this question in the right place. Now my real question. I have just been getting into the world of robotics and so far it has been going great. I only have one problem; I purchased a CMOS camera but I cant use it because it uses a parallel output. I want to make a small board to convert the parallel output to a serial output but I am not sure how. The camera uses a 8 bit parallel connection and it has been suggested to me that I should use a 8 bit PAR/SER shift register but I am looking for a second opinion so I know for certain what I should do.